Coconino County, AZ Privacy & Surveillance: Security Camera Rules (2026)

Coconino County's zoning ordinance does not maintain a residential-camera registry or a law-enforcement video-sharing program like a Ring partnership; the only county-level rule touching security cameras governs the infrared lighting mounted with them. 2, Infrared Security Lighting, permits lights emitting infrared radiation for remote security surveillance systems in every zone in the unincorporated county, subject to two mounting rules: fixed infrared lights must be fully shielded, and movable lights, such as spotlights attached to infrared-sensitive cameras, cannot be aimed higher than 20 degrees below horizontal measured from the center of the light beam.

That places IR security lighting inside Chapter 4's broader outdoor-lighting scheme, adopted to protect the Naval Observatory and Lowell Observatory from light pollution, rather than in a privacy or law-enforcement chapter. Because the ordinance is silent on camera placement, footage retention, or third-party doorbell-camera partnerships, a homeowner's obligations for the camera itself default to whatever civil law otherwise applies; only the light fixture attached to it is county-regulated, and it is enforced exactly like any other outdoor lighting fixture.