Flock & ALPR Cameras in Chinchilla, Pennsylvania
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Chinchilla — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Chinchilla, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Chinchilla itself.
The rest sit in Scranton (3), Dickson City (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Chinchilla in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 16, 10:40 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Chinchilla
The readers mapped around Chinchilla break down as 2 Flock Safety, 2 Genetec. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- North Keyser Avenue — 2 readers
- Commerce Boulevard — 1 reader
- Scranton Carbondale Highway — 1 reader
Chinchilla in the Lackawanna County picture
Lackawanna County has 19 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,818 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 215,834 residents and 2,175 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 47% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic.
Camera activity around Chinchilla, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Chinchilla. Latest change logged Aug 19, 2026.
What’s watching Chinchilla
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 Chinchilla — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Chinchilla (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Chinchilla
What you can do in Chinchilla
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.
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Cameras near Chinchilla
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).