Atlas · State

Pennsylvania

What is documented about automated license plate surveillance in Pennsylvania — and what is still an open question.

Are automated license plate readers used in Pennsylvania?

Yes. Volunteers have recorded 1,312 automated license plate reader camera locations in Pennsylvania, across 42 counties. That is a floor, not an inventory — it counts what someone has mapped, not what exists.

Camera data retrieved Aug 15, 2026 · No dated records held

1,312 Camera coordinates 1.1% of the 118,623 we hold nationally. Community-reported, not field-verified by us.
42 Counties with a mapped camera Assigned geometrically from Census county boundaries. A county with no entry has no mapped camera, which is not the same as none.
0 Documented decisions No government decision on record here yet.
0 Full dossiers Places researched down to retention, sharing, warrant standard, and audit policy — including the fields that come back unknown.

Known ALPR locations

Coverage incomplete

  • Camera coordinate
  • Jurisdiction record — no camera coordinates held
  • Program ended, declined, or prohibited

1,312 mapped camera coordinates · 42 jurisdiction records · 50 of 50 states have data. Camera coordinates © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Boundaries and roads: US Census, public domain. Roads are drawn for orientation only — a camera near a road is not a claim about which road it watches.

Pinned to Pennsylvania. Open the national Atlas to compare with neighbouring states.

Who supplies the cameras

Vendor attribution as recorded by OpenStreetMap contributors. Where a contributor did not identify the vendor the record reads “Unspecified” — that is an unrecorded fact, not a vendorless camera.

Vendor Mapped cameras Share
Flock Safety 643 49.0%
Unspecified 317 24.2%
PlateSmart 234 17.8%
Motorola Solutions 58 4.4%
Genetec 33 2.5%
Axis Communications 12 0.9%
Leonardo/Elsag 10 0.8%
Neology 2 0.2%
Automotus 1 0.1%
Ekin 1 0.1%
Axon 1 0.1%

Where in Pennsylvania

1,145 mapped cameras assigned to the county containing them. The 30 remaining counties with at least one mapped camera are in the open data.

  • Allegheny 294
  • Washington 121
  • Lehigh 100
  • Montgomery 76
  • Luzerne 68
  • Chester 45
  • Dauphin 40
  • Bucks 36
  • Philadelphia 34
  • Northampton 31
  • Westmoreland 29
  • Centre 26

Signal

No Signal story yet names Pennsylvania. That is a gap in our coverage rather than a quiet state — send us what you are seeing.

National developments that apply here

These are not about Pennsylvania specifically. They govern the cameras in it.

What we don’t know about Pennsylvania

We hold no researched record for Pennsylvania deep enough to have produced open questions yet. That is the largest gap on this page.

We don’t know yet. Help us find out.

Unsurveilled holds no documented ALPR decision for any Pennsylvania jurisdiction. That is a statement about our research capacity, not about Pennsylvania.

Places in Pennsylvania

The largest 40 of 192 places we can put on the map. Selecting one centres the map there. A place appearing here says nothing about whether it has cameras — it is a label, and the camera layer is separate and incomplete.