Flock & ALPR Cameras in Browntown, Pennsylvania
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Browntown — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Browntown, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Browntown itself.
The rest sit in Jenkins Township (2), Pittston (1), Pittston Township (1), Yatesville (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 24 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
- Sep 14 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Browntown
The readers mapped around Browntown break down as 2 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in May 2026.
- Tedrick Street — 1 reader
- South Township Boulevard — 1 reader
- Pittston Avenue — 1 reader
Browntown in the Luzerne County picture
Luzerne County has 113 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #895 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 325,978 residents and 3,589 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 20.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 public, 1 traffic.
What’s watching Browntown
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 Browntown — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Browntown (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Browntown
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.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Browntown
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).