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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Forked River, New Jersey

Volunteers have reported 20 automated license plate readers in and around Forked River — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 20 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Forked River, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Forked River itself.

The rest sit in Lacey Township (20).

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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20
Reported cameras nearby
#19
of 368 New Jersey cities tracked
0.9%
of New Jersey’s reported cameras
Live camera map 20 reported cameras around Forked River, New Jersey
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Forked River

No new reports near Forked River in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Forked River

The readers mapped around Forked River break down as 12 of unrecorded make, 4 Flock Safety, 4 Leonardo. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.

  • Lacey Road — 6 readers
  • Bayonne Avenue — 6 readers
  • Garden State Parkway — 4 readers
  • Forked River — 2 readers
  • North Main Street — 1 reader
  • Railroad Avenue — 1 reader

Forked River in the Ocean County picture

Ocean County has 66 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,759 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 646,434 residents and 3,450 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 29.9% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic.

Camera activity around Forked River, last 30 days

12 newly reported in our hourly change log for Forked River. Latest change logged Aug 22, 2026.

What’s watching Forked River

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 Forked River — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Forked River (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

The latest around Forked River

What you can do in Forked River

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.

Cameras near Forked River

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).