Flock & ALPR Cameras in Swissvale, Pennsylvania
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Swissvale — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 6 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Swissvale, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Swissvale itself.
The rest sit in Edgewood (6).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 7 PlateSmart/CyclopsTchnlgs camera newly reported
- Sep 7 PlateSmart/CyclopsTchnlgs camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Swissvale
The readers mapped around Swissvale break down as 2 Flock Safety, 2 PlateSmart/CyclopsTchnlgs, 1 LVR. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Towne Centre Drive — 4 readers
- South Braddock Avenue — 2 readers
Swissvale 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 4 traffic.
Camera activity around Swissvale, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Swissvale. Latest change logged Sep 7, 2026.
What’s watching Swissvale
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 Swissvale — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Swissvale (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Swissvale
What you can do in Swissvale
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.
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Cameras near Swissvale
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).