Flock & ALPR Cameras in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Volunteers have reported 95 automated license plate readers in and around Pittsburgh — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 21, 2026 On the agenda: Pittsburgh Borough Council - Sep 21, 2026 — ALPR (Sep 21)
- Aug 17, 2026 On the agenda: Pittsburgh Borough Council - Aug 17, 2026 — ALPR (Aug 17)
- Jun 15, 2026 On the agenda: Pittsburgh Borough Council - Jun 15, 2026 — ALPR (Jun 15)
- Mar 16, 2026 On the agenda: Pittsburgh Borough Council - Mar 16, 2026 — ALPR (Mar 16)
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- Sep 20 Neology, Inc. camera newly reported
- Sep 20 Genetec camera newly reported
- Sep 20 Genetec camera newly reported
- Sep 20 Neology, Inc. camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 8 new license plate readers just reported around Pittsburgh, PA. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #Pittsburgh
📷 28 new license plate readers just reported around Pittsburgh, PA. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #Pittsburgh
Where the cameras are in Pittsburgh
The readers mapped around Pittsburgh break down as 35 Flock Safety, 29 Motorola Solutions, 9 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Pittsburgh — 10 readers
- Penn Avenue — 6 readers
- Smallman Street — 5 readers
- P J McArdle Roadway — 5 readers
- Penn-Lincoln Parkway East — 4 readers
- 10th Street Bypass — 4 readers
- Liberty Avenue — 3 readers
- 9th Street — 3 readers
- Saw Mill Run Boulevard — 3 readers
- Bentley Drive — 3 readers
- Kirkpatrick Street — 3 readers
- Maddock Place — 3 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Pittsburgh — all on the live map above.
Pittsburgh PA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Pittsburgh PA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 69 other agencies.
Pittsburgh in the Allegheny County picture
Allegheny County has 446 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #855 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,240,476 residents and 5,421 road miles. By road density that is 0.08 cameras per road mile, in the top 6.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 73 traffic.
Camera activity around Pittsburgh, last 30 days
39 newly reported in our hourly change log for Pittsburgh. Latest change logged Sep 7, 2026.
What’s watching Pittsburgh
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 Pittsburgh — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Pittsburgh (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Pittsburgh
- Pittsburgh doesn’t use flock cameras – but license plate readers are already here
- Man shot multiple times in Pittsburgh's Homewood neighborhood
- Pittsburgh doesn’t use Flock cameras – but license plate readers are already here
- On the agenda: Pittsburgh Borough Council - Sep 21, 2026 — ALPR (Sep 21)
What you can do in Pittsburgh
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 Pittsburgh
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).