Flock & ALPR Cameras in Cranford, New Jersey
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Cranford — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 19 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
- Sep 12 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Cranford
The readers mapped around Cranford break down as 2 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Jul 2026.
- North Avenue East — 2 readers
Cranford NJ PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Cranford NJ PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 29 other agencies.
Cranford in the Union County picture
Union County has 109 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,423 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 572,549 residents and 977 road miles. By road density that is 0.11 cameras per road mile, in the top 3.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic.
What’s watching Cranford
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 Cranford — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Cranford (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Cranford
What you can do in Cranford
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 Cranford
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).