Flock & ALPR Cameras in Butler, Pennsylvania
Volunteers have reported 18 automated license plate readers in and around Butler — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 18 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Butler, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 11 of them sit inside Butler itself.
The rest sit in Butler Township (7).
14 of them name an operator in the record: City of Butler (7), Township of Butler (7). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
Need this city’s camera data? Custom extracts are free for researchers, journalists and advocates. Ask for it.
No new reports near Butler in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
📷 14 new license plate readers just reported around Butler, PA. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #Butler
Where the cameras are in Butler
The readers mapped around Butler break down as 14 PlateSmart/CyclopsTchnlgs, 4 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: City of Butler, Township of Butler. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- North Main Street — 3 readers
- East Wayne Street — 2 readers
- West Cunningham Street — 2 readers
- Filbert Road — 2 readers
- Fairfield Lane — 2 readers
- Lincoln Avenue — 1 reader
- North Monroe Street — 1 reader
- East Jefferson Street — 1 reader
- Kittanning Street — 1 reader
- West Wayne Street — 1 reader
- South Main Street — 1 reader
- Race Street — 1 reader
Butler in the Butler County picture
Butler County has 14 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,880 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 195,870 residents and 2,861 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 61% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 18 traffic. Operators named on the record: City of Butler (7), Township of Butler (7).
Camera activity around Butler, last 30 days
14 newly reported in our hourly change log for Butler. Latest change logged Aug 24, 2026.
What’s watching Butler
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 Butler — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Butler (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Butler
- UPMC Moving Into Clearview Mall | WISR 680 AM – Butler, PA
- Bill Would Ban Flock Cameras | WISR 680 AM – Butler, PA
- 14 new license plate readers reported around Butler, PA
- AAA Holding License Plate Replacement Event | WISR 680 AM – Butler , PA
What you can do in Butler
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 Butler
← All Pennsylvania cameras, counties & cities
Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).