Flock & ALPR Cameras in Paterson, New Jersey
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Paterson — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 2 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Paterson, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Paterson itself.
The rest sit in Clifton (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 28 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Paterson
The readers mapped around Paterson break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Aug 2026.
- Broadway — 1 reader
Paterson in the Passaic County picture
Passaic County has 37 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,881 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 518,289 residents and 1,010 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 16.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic.
Camera activity around Paterson, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Paterson. Latest change logged Aug 18, 2026.
What’s watching Paterson
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 Paterson — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Paterson (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Paterson
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 Paterson
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).