Flock & ALPR Cameras in South Orange, New Jersey
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around South Orange — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near South Orange in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:17 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in South Orange
The readers mapped around South Orange break down as 2 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: South Orange Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Irvington Avenue — 1 reader
- Valley Street — 1 reader
South Orange in the Essex County picture
Essex County has 34 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #2,035 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 854,130 residents and 1,089 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 20.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic. Operators named on the record: South Orange Police Department (1).
Camera activity around South Orange, last 30 days
2 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for South Orange. Latest change logged Sep 4, 2026.
What’s watching South Orange
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 Orange — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to South Orange (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around South Orange
- 2 new license plate readers reported around South Orange, NJ
- South Orange Approves Purchase of New Police Cameras—Without Facial Recognition Technology
- South Orange, N.J., Says No to Facial Recognition in Street Cameras
What you can do in South Orange
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 Orange
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).