Flock & ALPR Cameras in Castle Shannon, Pennsylvania
Volunteers have reported 38 automated license plate readers in and around Castle Shannon — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 38 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Castle Shannon, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 30 of them sit inside Castle Shannon itself.
The rest sit in Bethel Park (8).
3 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (2), Mount Lebanon Police Department (1). 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.
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- Sep 30 Axis Communications camera newly reported
- Sep 21 PlateSmart/CyclopsTchnlgs camera newly reported
- Sep 21 PlateSmart/CyclopsTchnlgs camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 8 new license plate readers just reported around Castle Shannon, PA. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #CastleShannon
Where the cameras are in Castle Shannon
The readers mapped around Castle Shannon break down as 33 PlateSmart/CyclopsTchnlgs, 5 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's, Mount Lebanon Police Department. The first camera here was reported in May 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Mount Lebanon Boulevard — 9 readers
- Library Road — 9 readers
- Castle Shannon Boulevard — 9 readers
- Milford Drive — 2 readers
- McCully Road — 2 readers
- Willow Avenue — 2 readers
- Killarney Drive — 1 reader
- Grove Road — 1 reader
- Rockwood Avenue — 1 reader
- Baptist Road — 1 reader
- Lowes Drive — 1 reader
Castle Shannon PA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Castle Shannon PA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 58 other agencies.
Castle Shannon in the Allegheny County picture
Allegheny County has 446 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #855 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,240,476 residents and 5,421 road miles. By road density that is 0.08 cameras per road mile, in the top 6.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 28 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (2), Mount Lebanon Police Department (1).
Camera activity around Castle Shannon, last 30 days
13 newly reported, 5 removed in our hourly change log for Castle Shannon. Latest change logged Sep 6, 2026.
What’s watching Castle Shannon
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 Castle Shannon — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Castle Shannon (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Castle Shannon
- 3 license plate readers reported removed near Castle Shannon, PA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Castle Shannon, PA
- 3 license plate readers reported removed near Castle Shannon, PA
- 8 new license plate readers reported around Castle Shannon, PA
What you can do in Castle Shannon
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 Castle Shannon
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).