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Deployment expandedNavajo Nation (AZ, NM, UT)

Navajo Nation to deploy Flock license plate cameras across 27K square miles

Published by
AZFamily
Author
Brian Petersheim Jr.
Date
Location
Navajo Nation (AZ, NM, UT)
Status
Deployment expanded

The Navajo Nation is partnering with Flock Safety to put licence plate readers across its 27,000 square miles in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, the largest land area held by an Indigenous nation in the United States. The Navajo Department of Criminal Investigation and the Navajo Nation Police Department will use the cameras against open investigations: a criminal investigator named drug smuggling, child abductions, missing persons and homicides. The context that separates this from a suburban contract: the Nation polices with roughly one officer per 1,000 residents, officers can respond from more than 100 miles away, response times can exceed an hour, and the missing and murdered Indigenous people crisis is the stated driver, with over 10,000 Native Americans reported missing in 2024 and Indigenous women murdered at rates up to ten times the national average. Recorded as an expansion because that is what it is; the desk notes that Flagstaff and Sedona, bordering the Nation, both terminated their own Flock contracts in 2025.

From the reporting

  • Coverage area is roughly 27,000 square miles across three states.
  • Users are the Navajo Department of Criminal Investigation and the Navajo Nation Police Department.
  • Staffing is roughly one officer per 1,000 residents; responses can run past an hour and beyond 100 miles.
  • Stated purposes: suspect vehicles in open investigations including drug smuggling, child abductions, missing persons and homicides.
  • Over 10,000 Native Americans were reported missing in 2024, just over half of them women.
  • Regional counterpoint: Flagstaff and Sedona terminated their Flock contracts in 2025, and Chandler delayed a renewal after public comment. A 2026 bill for statewide LPR standards died in March.

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