Flock & ALPR Cameras in Summit, New Jersey
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Summit — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 9 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Summit, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 7 of them sit inside Summit itself.
The rest sit in Short Hills (1), Springfield (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 22, 2026 On the agenda: Summit meeting — ALPR (Sep 22)
- May 19, 2026 On the agenda: Summit meeting — ALPR (May 19)
- Apr 21, 2026 On the agenda: Summit meeting — ALPR (Apr 21)
- Mar 17, 2026 On the agenda: Summit meeting — ALPR (Mar 17)
Every record for this area on the Docket → · nothing is ever deleted.
No new reports near Summit in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:21 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Summit
The readers mapped around Summit break down as 9 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Hobart Avenue — 3 readers
- Baltusrol Road — 1 reader
- Essex Road — 1 reader
- Fernwood Road — 1 reader
- Summit Avenue — 1 reader
- Kent Place Boulevard — 1 reader
- Glenside Avenue — 1 reader
Summit 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 9 traffic.
Camera activity around Summit, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Summit. Latest change logged Aug 24, 2026.
What’s watching Summit
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 Summit — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Summit (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Summit
- On the agenda: Summit meeting — ALPR (Sep 22)
- On the agenda: Summit meeting — ALPR (May 19)
- On the agenda: Summit meeting — ALPR (Apr 21)
- On the agenda: Summit meeting — ALPR (Mar 17)
What you can do in Summit
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 Summit
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).