Flock & ALPR Cameras in Scotch Plains, New Jersey
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Scotch Plains — 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 Scotch Plains, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 3 of them sit inside Scotch Plains itself.
The rest sit in Watchung (6), Westfield (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Town of Westfield Police Department (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Scotch Plains in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 21:38 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Scotch Plains
The readers mapped around Scotch Plains break down as 10 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Town of Westfield Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- New Providence Road — 4 readers
- Mountain Avenue — 2 readers
- Blue Star Drive — 1 reader
- Valley Road — 1 reader
- Brightwood Avenue — 1 reader
- US 22 — 1 reader
Scotch Plains NJ PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Scotch Plains NJ PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 55 other agencies.
Scotch Plains 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 6 traffic. Operators named on the record: Town of Westfield Police Department (1).
Camera activity around Scotch Plains, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Scotch Plains. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Scotch Plains
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 Scotch Plains — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Scotch Plains (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Scotch Plains
What you can do in Scotch Plains
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 Scotch Plains
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).