Flock & ALPR Cameras in East Newark, New Jersey
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around East Newark — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 10 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of East Newark, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside East Newark itself.
The rest sit in Newark (7), Harrison (1), Kearny (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 6 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
- Oct 6 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
- Oct 5 Axis Communications camera newly reported
- Oct 5 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in East Newark
The readers mapped around East Newark break down as 2 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to May 2026.
- Cross Street — 2 readers
East Newark 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 2 traffic.
What’s watching East Newark
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 Newark — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to East Newark (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around East Newark
- 2 new license plate readers reported around East Newark, NJ
- 3 new license plate readers reported around East Newark, NJ
- 2 new license plate readers reported around East Newark, NJ
What you can do in East Newark
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 Newark
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).