Flock & ALPR Cameras in Old Tappan, New Jersey
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Old Tappan — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 1 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Old Tappan, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Old Tappan itself.
The rest sit in River Vale (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Old Tappan in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Old Tappan
The readers mapped around Old Tappan break down as 1 of unrecorded make. Every report here dates to Aug 2026.
- Prospect Avenue — 1 reader
Old Tappan 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 1 traffic.
What’s watching Old Tappan
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 Old Tappan — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Old Tappan (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Old Tappan
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 Old Tappan
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).