Flock & ALPR Cameras in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Jim Thorpe — 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 Jim Thorpe, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Jim Thorpe itself.
The rest sit in Mahoning Township (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Jim Thorpe in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:21 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Jim Thorpe
The readers mapped around Jim Thorpe break down as 2 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Mauch Chunk Street — 1 reader
- Lentz Trail — 1 reader
Jim Thorpe in the Carbon County picture
Carbon County has 16 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,198 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 65,191 residents and 1,427 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 40.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic.
What’s watching Jim Thorpe
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 Jim Thorpe — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Jim Thorpe (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Jim Thorpe
What you can do in Jim Thorpe
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 Jim Thorpe
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).