Flock & ALPR Cameras in Elizabeth, New Jersey
Volunteers have reported 25 automated license plate readers in and around Elizabeth — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 25 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Elizabeth, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 19 of them sit inside Elizabeth itself.
The rest sit in Hillside (5), Union (1).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 2 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 29 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 26 Rekor camera newly reported
- Sep 26 Genetec camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Elizabeth
The readers mapped around Elizabeth break down as 18 Flock Safety, 1 Kapsch, 1 Leonardo. Named operators in the reports: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- North Avenue — 3 readers
- Irvington Avenue — 2 readers
- Jacques Street — 1 reader
- I 278 — 1 reader
- Newark Avenue — 1 reader
- Flora Street — 1 reader
- Fairmount Avenue — 1 reader
- Goethals Bridge — 1 reader
- Elmora Avenue — 1 reader
- Amboy Avenue — 1 reader
- 2nd Street — 1 reader
- Redcliffe Street — 1 reader
+ 5 more streets and roads mapped around Elizabeth — all on the live map above.
Elizabeth NJ PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Elizabeth NJ PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 28 other agencies.
Elizabeth 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 19 traffic. Operators named on the record: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (2).
Camera activity around Elizabeth, last 30 days
7 newly reported in our hourly change log for Elizabeth. Latest change logged Sep 11, 2026.
What’s watching Elizabeth
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 Elizabeth — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Elizabeth (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Elizabeth
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Elizabeth, NJ
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Elizabeth, NJ
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Elizabeth, NJ
What you can do in Elizabeth
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 Elizabeth
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).