Flock & ALPR Cameras in South Amboy, New Jersey
Volunteers have reported 62 automated license plate readers in and around South Amboy — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 62 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of South Amboy, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 10 of them sit inside South Amboy itself.
The rest sit in Sayreville (52).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 10 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 32 new license plate readers just reported around South Amboy, NJ. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #SouthAmboy
Where the cameras are in South Amboy
The readers mapped around South Amboy break down as 32 of unrecorded make, 27 Flock Safety, 3 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Garden State Parkway — 32 readers
- Main Street — 7 readers
- Washington Avenue — 4 readers
- Bordentown Avenue — 3 readers
- Main Street Extension — 3 readers
- NJ 35 — 2 readers
- Eugene Boulevard — 2 readers
- Victory Plaza — 1 reader
- Raritan Street — 1 reader
- US Highway 9 — 1 reader
- Lorraine Avenue — 1 reader
- Ridgeway Avenue — 1 reader
+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around South Amboy — all on the live map above.
South Amboy NJ PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, South Amboy NJ PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 6 other agencies.
South Amboy in the Middlesex County picture
Middlesex County has 207 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,220 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 861,535 residents and 2,289 road miles. By road density that is 0.09 cameras per road mile, in the top 5.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 24 traffic.
Camera activity around South Amboy, last 30 days
33 newly reported in our hourly change log for South Amboy. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.
What’s watching South Amboy
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 South Amboy — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to South Amboy (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around South Amboy
- 32 new license plate readers reported around South Amboy, NJ
- 2 new license plate readers reported around South Amboy, NJ
What you can do in South Amboy
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 South Amboy
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).