Flock & ALPR Cameras in Plainfield, New Jersey
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Plainfield — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 10 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Plainfield, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Plainfield itself.
The rest sit in Watchung (6), Scotch Plains (3).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Plainfield in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:32 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Plainfield
The readers mapped around Plainfield break down as 8 Flock Safety, 2 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- US 22 — 4 readers
- East 2nd Street — 3 readers
- Gray Street — 1 reader
- Blue Star Drive — 1 reader
- Terrill Road — 1 reader
Plainfield 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 8 traffic.
Camera activity around Plainfield, last 30 days
4 newly reported in our hourly change log for Plainfield. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching 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 Plainfield — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Plainfield (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Plainfield
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Plainfield, NJ
- 2 new license plate readers reported around South Plainfield, NJ
What you can do in 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 Plainfield
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).