Flock & ALPR Cameras in Mountainside, New Jersey
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Mountainside — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Mountainside, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 6 of them sit inside Mountainside itself.
The rest sit in Westfield (2).
5 of them name an operator in the record: Town of Westfield Police Department (5). 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 7 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
- Sep 18 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Mountainside
The readers mapped around Mountainside break down as 5 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Town of Westfield Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Lawrence Avenue — 1 reader
- Woodland Avenue — 1 reader
- Mountain Avenue — 1 reader
- Cardinal Drive — 1 reader
- Hillside Avenue — 1 reader
- Summit Road — 1 reader
Mountainside 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 6 traffic. Operators named on the record: Town of Westfield Police Department (5).
Camera activity around Mountainside, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Mountainside. Latest change logged Aug 15, 2026.
What’s watching Mountainside
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 Mountainside — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Mountainside (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Mountainside
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 Mountainside
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).