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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hartranft, Pennsylvania

Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Hartranft — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 7 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Hartranft, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Hartranft itself.

The rest sit in Philadelphia (7).

2 of them name an operator in the record: Temple University Campus PA PD (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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Reported cameras nearby
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of 499 Pennsylvania cities tracked
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of Pennsylvania’s reported cameras
Live camera map 7 reported cameras around Hartranft, Pennsylvania
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Hartranft
+0 this week +1 last 30 days
  • Sep 16 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported

Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.

Where the cameras are in Hartranft

The readers mapped around Hartranft break down as 3 Flock Safety, 2 Genetec, 1 Ekin Box Spotter. Named operators in the reports: Temple University Campus PA PD. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.

  • North Broad Street — 3 readers
  • North 12th Street — 1 reader
  • West Norris Street — 1 reader
  • North Carlisle Street — 1 reader

Hartranft in the Philadelphia County picture

Philadelphia County has 44 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #2,096 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,582,432 residents and 1,017 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 14.6% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic. Operators named on the record: Temple University Campus PA PD (2).

Camera activity around Hartranft, last 30 days

3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Hartranft. Latest change logged Aug 25, 2026.

What’s watching Hartranft

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 Hartranft — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hartranft (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

The latest around Hartranft

What you can do in Hartranft

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.

Cameras near Hartranft

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).