Flock & ALPR Cameras in Garfield, New Jersey
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Garfield — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Garfield, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside Garfield itself.
The rest sit in Passaic (3).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Garfield in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:10 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Garfield
The readers mapped around Garfield break down as 4 Flock Safety, 1 Axis Communications. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Dayton Avenue — 2 readers
- Parker Avenue — 1 reader
- Outwater Lane — 1 reader
- Palisade Avenue — 1 reader
Garfield in the Bergen County picture
Bergen County has 48 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,982 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 954,717 residents and 2,172 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 27.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic.
Camera activity around Garfield, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Garfield. Latest change logged Aug 16, 2026.
What’s watching Garfield
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 Garfield — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Garfield (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Garfield
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 Garfield
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).