Flock & ALPR Cameras in South Plainfield, New Jersey
Volunteers have reported 25 automated license plate readers in and around South Plainfield — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 25 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of South Plainfield, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 14 of them sit inside South Plainfield itself.
The rest sit in Edison (10), Piscataway Township (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 25 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in South Plainfield
The readers mapped around South Plainfield break down as 24 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Hamilton Boulevard — 6 readers
- Timber Oaks Road — 4 readers
- Durham Avenue — 1 reader
- Hadley Road — 1 reader
- Shevchenko Avenue — 1 reader
- Terrace Avenue — 1 reader
- New Brunswick Avenue — 1 reader
- Plainfield Avenue — 1 reader
- Clinton Avenue — 1 reader
- Rahway Road — 1 reader
- Inman Avenue — 1 reader
- Bobbi Jean Avenue — 1 reader
+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around South Plainfield — all on the live map above.
South Plainfield NJ PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, South Plainfield NJ PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 14 other agencies.
South Plainfield 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 12 traffic.
Camera activity around South Plainfield, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for South Plainfield. Latest change logged Aug 27, 2026.
What’s watching South 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 South Plainfield — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to South Plainfield (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around South Plainfield
What you can do in South 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 South Plainfield
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).