Flock & ALPR Cameras in East Orange, New Jersey
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around East Orange — 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 Orange, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside East Orange itself.
The rest sit in Bloomfield (4), Belleville (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 2 Axis Communications camera newly reported
- Sep 22 Axis Communications camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in East Orange
The readers mapped around East Orange break down as 4 Flock Safety, 2 Motorola Solutions, 2 Leonardo. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Orange Street — 1 reader
- Hill Street — 1 reader
- Prospect Street — 1 reader
- William Street — 1 reader
- North Arlington Avenue — 1 reader
- Lincoln Street — 1 reader
- Bloomfield Avenue — 1 reader
- Dodd Street — 1 reader
East Orange 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 6 traffic.
Camera activity around East Orange, last 30 days
6 newly reported in our hourly change log for East Orange. Latest change logged Aug 19, 2026.
What’s watching East Orange
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 Orange — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to East Orange (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around East Orange
- 4 new license plate readers reported around East Orange, NJ
- 2 new license plate readers reported around East Orange, NJ
- On the agenda: East Orange meeting — Public Safety Camera (Mar 23)
What you can do in East Orange
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.
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Cameras near East Orange
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).