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Are there Flock cameras in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania?

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Are there Flock cameras in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania?

Our records document automated license plate reader use in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania recorded for Baldwin Police Department, Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office, Bellevue Borough Police Department, Brentwood Borough Police Department and Pittsburgh Police Department, but they do not establish Flock Safety as the vendor. Separately, 175 individual ALPR camera locations mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors fall inside the municipal boundary, 30 of them source-tagged Flock Safety.

Agencies
Baldwin Police Department, Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office, Bellevue Borough Police Department, Brentwood Borough Police Department and Pittsburgh Police Department
Vendor
OpenALPR
County
Allegheny County
Records on file
5
Mapped cameras inside boundary
175
Source-tagged Flock Safety
30
Latest cited source
7/20/2019
Database last updated
2026-08-07
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What's on file

Agency

Baldwin Police Department

Agency type

Police

Jurisdiction

Municipal

County

Allegheny County

State

Pennsylvania (PA)

Vendor

No verified record currently in our database

The Baldin Police Department has used automated license plate readers since 2011. It purchased another ALPR system in 2018 with asset forfeiture funds

Sources · record AOS000037

Agency

Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office

Agency type

District Attorney

Jurisdiction

County

County

Allegheny County

State

Pennsylvania (PA)

Vendor

OpenALPR

The Allegheny County District Attorney's office began using automated license plate readers in late 2016, early 2017. As of 2019, the DA had installed more than 400 OpenALPR systems throughout the city.

Sources · record AOS007827

Agency

Bellevue Borough Police Department

Agency type

Police

Jurisdiction

Municipal

County

Allegheny County

State

Pennsylvania (PA)

Vendor

No verified record currently in our database

The Bellevue Borough Police Department received funding from the Alleghany County District Attorney to purchase an automated license plate reader in 2019.

Sources · record AOS008706

Agency

Brentwood Borough Police Department

Agency type

Police

Jurisdiction

Municipal

County

Allegheny County

State

Pennsylvania (PA)

Vendor

No verified record currently in our database

The Brentwood Borough Police Department included Plate Search software in its 2021 operating budget.

Sources · record AOS008707

Agency

Pittsburgh Police Department

Agency type

Police

Jurisdiction

Municipal

County

Allegheny County

State

Pennsylvania (PA)

Vendor

No verified record currently in our database

The Pittsburgh Police Department has used automated license plate readers since at least 2015. ALPR data is fed into the Pittsburgh real-time crime center.

Sources · record AOS008724

What this record does not say

These entries document that an agency has been reported to use ALPR technology. They do not establish camera counts, exact locations, cost, retention periods or sharing policies unless the linked source says so.

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Sources & records

Everything on this page traces back to the records below. Where a record carries no linked document, we say so instead of filling the gap.

Documented deployment records

Deployment records come from the EFF Atlas of Surveillance ↗. Database last updated 2026-08-07.

Community-mapped camera locations

175 mapped camera points inside the Pittsburgh boundary, from OpenStreetMap contributors via the DeFlock ↗ dataset (ODbL). Each point links to its own OpenStreetMap record in the camera list on this page.

Camera points are matched to this municipality by point-in-polygon containment against US Census Bureau cartographic boundaries (2023) — the coordinate falls inside the municipal boundary. Containment is a statement about location only, never about ownership, operation, purchase or deployment.

Nearby documented deployments

Other Pennsylvania communities with a record in our database — nearest by county first. Absence from this list is not evidence of absence.

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Relevant Flockery from Pennsylvania

LEGISLATIONHarrisburg, PA

Flocked and loaded: Pennsylvania lawmakers look to regulate license plate-reading cameras ↗

State legislators are introducing bipartisan bills that would set standards for how Pennsylvania agencies use automated license plate readers, including retention limits and rules on sharing. Nothing has passed yet — this is the drafting stage — but it puts Pennsylvania in the growing group of states trying to legislate ALPR rather than leave it to procurement.

City & State PennsylvaniaAug 14, 2026News reportingFlock Safety

Read original source →Flock cameras in Pennsylvania →

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Camera counts, contract prices, retention and sharing policies are shown only where we found a primary source. Where they're missing, the information is not publicly verified — see the Flock Files for the documents we do have.

Data attribution

Portions of the surveillance deployment data on this site come from the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Atlas of Surveillance. atlasofsurveillance.org ↗ Are You Flocked? is independent and is not affiliated with the EFF or Flock Safety. Database last updated 2026-08-07.

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