Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hillside, New Jersey
Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Hillside — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 3 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Hillside, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Hillside itself.
The rest sit in Union (2), Newark (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 13 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
- Sep 7 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Hillside
The readers mapped around Hillside break down as 2 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Sep 2026.
- Green Lane — 2 readers
Hillside NJ PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Hillside NJ PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 4 other agencies.
Hillside 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 1 traffic.
Camera activity around Hillside, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Hillside. Latest change logged Sep 7, 2026.
What’s watching Hillside
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 Hillside — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hillside (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Hillside
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 Hillside
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).