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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Franklin Center, New Jersey

Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Franklin Center — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 2 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Franklin Center, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Franklin Center itself.

The rest sit in Franklin Township (2).

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

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Reported cameras nearby
#288
of 368 New Jersey cities tracked
0.1%
of New Jersey’s reported cameras
Live camera map 2 reported cameras around Franklin Center, 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 Franklin Center

No new reports near Franklin Center in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 08:56 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Franklin Center

The readers mapped around Franklin Center break down as 2 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Jul 2026.

  • Dewitt Boulevard — 1 reader
  • Shadowlawn Drive — 1 reader

Franklin Center 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 2 traffic.

What’s watching Franklin Center

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

The latest around Franklin Center

What you can do in Franklin Center

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 Franklin Center

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