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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Allegheny West, Pennsylvania

Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Allegheny West — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 2 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Allegheny West, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Allegheny West itself.

The rest sit in Philadelphia (2).

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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Reported cameras nearby
#348
of 499 Pennsylvania cities tracked
0.1%
of Pennsylvania’s reported cameras
Live camera map 2 reported cameras around Allegheny West, Pennsylvania
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Allegheny West

No new reports near Allegheny West in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 9, 13:34 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Allegheny West

The readers mapped around Allegheny West break down as 2 Genetec. Every report here dates to Aug 2026.

  • Ridge Avenue — 2 readers

Allegheny West in the Philadelphia County picture

Philadelphia County has 44 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #2,096 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,582,432 residents and 1,017 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 14.6% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic.

Camera activity around Allegheny West, last 30 days

2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Allegheny West. Latest change logged Aug 25, 2026.

What’s watching Allegheny West

These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond Allegheny West — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Allegheny West (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

The latest around Allegheny West

What you can do in Allegheny West

Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.

Cameras near Allegheny West

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).