Flock & ALPR Cameras in Carteret, New Jersey
Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Carteret — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 2 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Carteret, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Carteret itself.
The rest sit in Woodbridge Township (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 7 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Carteret
The readers mapped around Carteret break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Jun 2026.
- Port Reading Avenue — 1 reader
Carteret in the Middlesex County picture
Middlesex County has 207 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,220 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 861,535 residents and 2,289 road miles. By road density that is 0.09 cameras per road mile, in the top 5.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic.
What’s watching Carteret
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 Carteret — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Carteret (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Carteret
What you can do in Carteret
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 Carteret
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).