Flock & ALPR Cameras in Glenolden, Pennsylvania
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Glenolden — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 2 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Glenolden, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Glenolden itself.
The rest sit in Folcroft (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 22 Axis Communications camera newly reported
- Sep 22 Axis Communications camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 Glenolden, PA just got its first reported license plate readers. Someone went out and looked — now it's on the map. #ALPR #Surveillance #Glenolden
Glenolden in the Delaware County picture
Delaware County has 178 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #991 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 576,195 residents and 1,608 road miles. By road density that is 0.11 cameras per road mile, in the top 4% of counties nationally.
What’s watching Glenolden
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 Glenolden — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Glenolden (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Glenolden
What you can do in Glenolden
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 Glenolden
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).