Flock & ALPR Cameras in Erie, Pennsylvania
Volunteers have reported 17 automated license plate readers in and around Erie — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 17 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Erie, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Erie itself.
The rest sit in Summit Township (8), Millcreek Township (5).
6 of them name an operator in the record: The Home Depot (4), Millcreek Mall (2). 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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- Oct 2 Genetec camera newly reported
- Oct 1 Genetec camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Erie
The readers mapped around Erie break down as 12 Flock Safety, 2 Genetec, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot, Millcreek Mall. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Commons Drive — 7 readers
- Millcreek Mall Boulevard — 2 readers
- Rotunda Drive — 1 reader
- Cafaro Drive — 1 reader
- Edinboro Road — 1 reader
- Millcreek Plaza — 1 reader
- East 18th Street — 1 reader
- West 38th Street — 1 reader
Erie PA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Erie PA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 64 other agencies.
Erie in the Erie County picture
Erie County has 18 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,912 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 269,544 residents and 1,819 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 43.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 9 traffic, 2 entrance, 1 street. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (4), Millcreek Mall (2).
Camera activity around Erie, last 30 days
4 newly reported, 3 removed in our hourly change log for Erie. Latest change logged Sep 6, 2026.
What’s watching Erie
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 Erie — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Erie (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Erie
- 3 license plate readers reported removed near Erie, PA
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Erie, PA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Erie, PA
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What you can do in Erie
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 Erie
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).