Flock & ALPR Cameras in Caldwell, New Jersey
Volunteers have reported 12 automated license plate readers in and around Caldwell — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 12 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Caldwell, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 7 of them sit inside Caldwell itself.
The rest sit in North Caldwell (2), West Caldwell (2), Essex Fells (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 6 Leonardo camera newly reported
- Oct 6 Leonardo camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Caldwell
The readers mapped around Caldwell break down as 7 Motorola Solutions, 3 Leonardo. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Bloomfield Avenue — 4 readers
- Mountain Avenue — 2 readers
- Fellscrest Road — 1 reader
- Smull Avenue — 1 reader
- Forest Avenue — 1 reader
- Roseland Avenue — 1 reader
Caldwell in the Essex County picture
Essex County has 34 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #2,035 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 854,130 residents and 1,089 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 20.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 10 traffic.
Camera activity around Caldwell, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Caldwell. Latest change logged Aug 24, 2026.
What’s watching Caldwell
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 Caldwell — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Caldwell (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Caldwell
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Caldwell, NJ
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Caldwell, NJ
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Caldwell, NJ
- 3 new license plate readers reported around North Caldwell, NJ
What you can do in Caldwell
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 Caldwell
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).