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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Butler, New Jersey

Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Butler — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Butler, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Butler itself.

The rest sit in Bloomingdale (1), Kinnelon (1), Riverdale (1).

1 of them name an operator in the record: The Home Depot (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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Live camera map 1 reported cameras around Butler, New Jersey
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Butler

No new reports near Butler in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 08:01 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Butler

The readers mapped around Butler break down as 3 Flock Safety, 1 Rekor. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.

  • NJ 23 — 2 readers
  • Morse Avenue — 1 reader
  • Main Street — 1 reader

Butler in the Morris County picture

Morris County has 109 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,333 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 510,375 residents and 2,461 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 14% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (1).

Camera activity around Butler, last 30 days

1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Butler. Latest change logged Aug 23, 2026.

What’s watching Butler

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 Butler — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Butler (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Butler

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.

Cameras near Butler

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).