Flock & ALPR Cameras in New Providence, New Jersey
Volunteers have reported 12 automated license plate readers in and around New Providence — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 12 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of New Providence, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside New Providence itself.
The rest sit in Chatham Township (4), Berkeley Heights (2), Summit (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near New Providence in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in New Providence
The readers mapped around New Providence break down as 7 Motorola Solutions, 3 Neology, Inc., 1 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Apr 2026.
- Springfield Avenue — 2 readers
- River Road — 2 readers
- Fairmount Avenue — 2 readers
- Glenside Avenue — 1 reader
- New Providence — 1 reader
- Glenside Road — 1 reader
- Diamond Hill Road — 1 reader
- Central Avenue — 1 reader
- Mountain Avenue — 1 reader
New Providence 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 11 traffic.
What’s watching New Providence
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 New Providence — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to New Providence (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around New Providence
What you can do in New Providence
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 New Providence
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).