Flock & ALPR Cameras in New Castle, Pennsylvania
Volunteers have reported 27 automated license plate readers in and around New Castle — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 27 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of New Castle, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 24 of them sit inside New Castle itself.
The rest sit in Shenango Township (2), Hickory Township (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 18 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in New Castle
The readers mapped around New Castle break down as 26 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- North Croton Avenue — 4 readers
- North Jefferson Street — 2 readers
- South Cascade Street — 2 readers
- West Grant Street — 2 readers
- East Washington Street — 2 readers
- North Columbus Innerbelt — 1 reader
- Lowry Street — 1 reader
- South Jefferson Street — 1 reader
- New Butler Road — 1 reader
- Highland Avenue — 1 reader
- North Cascade Street — 1 reader
- West Falls Street — 1 reader
+ 7 more streets and roads mapped around New Castle — all on the live map above.
New Castle PA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, New Castle PA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 110 other agencies.
New Castle in the Lawrence County picture
Lawrence County has 41 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #564 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 85,423 residents and 1,441 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 22.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 26 traffic.
Camera activity around New Castle, last 30 days
4 newly reported in our hourly change log for New Castle. Latest change logged Aug 21, 2026.
What’s watching New Castle
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 New Castle — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to New Castle (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around New Castle
- 2 new license plate readers reported around New Castle, PA
- New Castle, PA put Flock in its only Majority-Minority Neighborhood
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Castle Shannon, PA
What you can do in New Castle
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 New Castle
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).