A Flock Safety license plate reader camera near Casa Grande, Ariz., in October 2025. (Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror)
Nearly one-in-four searches of an automated license plate reader database made by an Arizona police agency came from the Scottsdale Police Department — nearly as many queries as the statewide Arizona Department of Public Safety, which patrols every highway in the Grand Canyon State.
The Scottsdale Police Department utilizes the Flock Safety network, a system that links automated license plate readers, commonlyreferred to as ALPR, from across the country into a system that allows law enforcement to search thousands of images of vehicles…