August 28, 2026
East Valley Unite Announces “End ALPRs Tour”
Tempe, Arizona – After big wins for the community in Chandler and Tempe, East Valley Unite (EVU) is expanding the campaign against ALPRs in the East Valley. At three city council meetings, in three days, they will gather people with one demand: End ALPRs. Tempe, Apache Junction, and Queen Creek will hold city council meetings on August 31, September 1, and September 2 respectively. This comes after polling reveals about two-thirds of Arizona voters oppose ALPR use, with majorities across party lines.
Tempe is the first stop on the “tour”, and it has already claimed it will cancel its Flock contract and not replace the system with another company. On Friday, after demands for the cameras to be bagged, the city covered them up. Now, the community wants what the city is already claiming codified. “Tempe has said that it won’t pursue an ALPR contract with a replacement company,” said Nathan Taylortaft, co-director of EVU, “now we need them to pass an ordinance similar to the one we are proposing in Chandler, to put what they have already said into legislation banning the city from using ALPRs or ALPR data in the future.”
Tempe will hold its regular city council meeting on August 31 at 6pm at the city council chambers.
Apache Junction, the second stop, has witnessed an officer misuse Flock data to track down his wife and kids. The city is still currently using Flock, but East Valley residents want to change that. They warn that this can happen again, with Flock or any ALPR system, demanding an immediate end to the Flock contract, and asking for an ordinance banning ALPRs.
Apache Junction’s next city council meeting is on September 1 at 7pm at city hall.
The final stop on the list is Queen Creek. The town is reportedly considering adding guardrails to its current Flock system, after seeing misuse around the Valley from nearby Apache Junction and Chandler, to Surprise. EVU says guardrails aren’t enough. “Police departments often try to center conversations around safeguards, but that distracts from the bigger issues at hand,” Taylortaft said, “ALPRs violate our constitutional rights to privacy under the Fourth Amendment by building a warrantless mass surveillance system.” Fourth Amendment concerns were cited by Pinal County Sheriff Ross Teeple when he announced that the county would not be renewing its contract with Flock. In Tempe, when referring to the city’s statement of not switching to another ALPR vendor, Mayor Corey Woods said “the risk of misuse is too great.” These are key concerns being brought up in the conversation around Queen Creek’s use of ALPRs, as people want the program to be ended entirely, and a ban to be placed on all ALPR technology.
Queen Creek’s council meeting will be held on September 2 at 6:30pm in the community chambers.