Flock & ALPR Cameras in Cedar Grove, New Jersey
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Cedar Grove — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Cedar Grove in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:21 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Cedar Grove
The readers mapped around Cedar Grove break down as 3 Axis Communications, 1 Motorola Solutions. Every report here dates to Aug 2026.
- West Essex Trail — 2 readers
- Fairview Avenue — 1 reader
- Pompton Avenue — 1 reader
Cedar Grove 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 4 traffic.
What’s watching Cedar Grove
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 Cedar Grove — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Cedar Grove (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Cedar Grove
What you can do in Cedar Grove
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 Cedar Grove
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).