Flock & ALPR Cameras in State College, Pennsylvania
Volunteers have reported 30 automated license plate readers in and around State College — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 30 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of State College, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 23 of them sit inside State College itself.
The rest sit in College Township (7).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Pennsylvania State University (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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- Sep 29 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 16 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 16 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 9 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in State College
The readers mapped around State College break down as 24 Flock Safety, 3 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Pennsylvania State University. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Porter Road — 4 readers
- University Drive — 4 readers
- South Atherton Street — 2 readers
- Pollock Road — 2 readers
- Bigler Road — 2 readers
- Curtin Road — 2 readers
- Allen Road — 2 readers
- East Park Avenue — 1 reader
- North Burrowes Road — 1 reader
- Shortlidge Road — 1 reader
- White Course Drive — 1 reader
- West Park Avenue — 1 reader
+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around State College — all on the live map above.
State College in the Centre County picture
Centre County has 28 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,465 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 158,041 residents and 2,890 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 44.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 19 traffic. Operators named on the record: Pennsylvania State University (2).
Camera activity around State College, last 30 days
6 newly reported, 4 removed in our hourly change log for State College. Latest change logged Sep 9, 2026.
What’s watching State College
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 State College — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to State College (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around State College
- 2 new license plate readers reported around State College, PA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around State College, PA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around State College, PA
- State College police use traffic cameras, but not the Flock ones making headlines
What you can do in State College
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 State College
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).