Flock & ALPR Cameras in North Plainfield, New Jersey
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around North Plainfield — 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 North Plainfield, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside North Plainfield itself.
The rest sit in Watchung (4), Plainfield (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 18 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in North Plainfield
The readers mapped around North Plainfield break down as 7 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Gray Street — 4 readers
- Grove Street — 1 reader
- Somerset Street — 1 reader
- Monroe Avenue — 1 reader
North Plainfield 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 3 traffic.
What’s watching North Plainfield
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 North Plainfield — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to North Plainfield (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in North Plainfield
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 North Plainfield
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).