Flock & ALPR Cameras in East Franklin, New Jersey
Volunteers have reported 21 automated license plate readers in and around East Franklin — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 21 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of East Franklin, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside East Franklin itself.
The rest sit in Franklin Township (17), New Brunswick (4).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 25 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 15 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in East Franklin
The readers mapped around East Franklin break down as 15 Flock Safety, 4 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Franklin Boulevard — 3 readers
- Somerset Street — 3 readers
- Hamilton Street — 3 readers
- Matilda Avenue — 2 readers
- Van Dyke Avenue — 2 readers
- College Avenue — 2 readers
- Easton Avenue — 1 reader
- Main Street — 1 reader
- Douglas Avenue — 1 reader
- Oak Place — 1 reader
East Franklin in the Somerset County picture
Somerset County has 143 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #697 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 346,203 residents and 1,525 road miles. By road density that is 0.09 cameras per road mile, in the top 5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 12 traffic, 1 public.
Camera activity around East Franklin, last 30 days
6 newly reported, 2 removed in our hourly change log for East Franklin. Latest change logged Sep 6, 2026.
What’s watching East Franklin
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 East Franklin — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to East Franklin (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around East Franklin
- 2 new license plate readers reported around East Franklin, NJ
- 2 new license plate readers reported around East Franklin, NJ
What you can do in East Franklin
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 East Franklin
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).