Flock & ALPR Cameras in West View, Pennsylvania
Volunteers have reported 17 automated license plate readers in and around West View — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 17 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of West View, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside West View itself.
The rest sit in Ross Township (14), McCandless (1).
3 of them name an operator in the record: Simon Property Group (2), Lowe's (1). 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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- Oct 4 License plate reader newly reported
- Oct 4 License plate reader newly reported
- Oct 4 License plate reader newly reported
- Sep 19 License plate reader newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in West View
The readers mapped around West View break down as 4 Flock Safety, 2 Verkada Inc., 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Simon Property Group, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Saint Simon Way — 1 reader
- Ross Park Mall Drive — 1 reader
- Cheryl Drive — 1 reader
- Old McKnight Road — 1 reader
- Ross Municipal Drive — 1 reader
- West View Park Drive — 1 reader
- Perry Highway — 1 reader
West View 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 7 traffic. Operators named on the record: Simon Property Group (2), Lowe's (1).
Camera activity around West View, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for West View. Latest change logged Sep 5, 2026.
What’s watching West View
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 West View — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to West View (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around West View
- 3 new license plate readers reported around West View, PA
- 7 new license plate readers reported around West View, PA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around West View, PA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around West View, PA
What you can do in West View
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 West View
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).