Flock & ALPR Cameras in Rutherford, Pennsylvania
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Rutherford — 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 Rutherford, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Rutherford itself.
The rest sit in Lower Paxton Township (4), Swatara Township (3).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Rutherford in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 12:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Rutherford
The readers mapped around Rutherford break down as 6 Motorola Solutions, 1 Leonardo. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Mar 2026.
- Paxton Street — 2 readers
- Union Deposit Road — 2 readers
- Nyes Road — 2 readers
- Mushroom Hill Road — 1 reader
Rutherford in the Dauphin County picture
Dauphin County has 72 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,185 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 287,484 residents and 2,198 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 19.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic.
What’s watching Rutherford
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 Rutherford — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Rutherford (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Rutherford
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 Rutherford
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).