Flock & ALPR Cameras in West Caldwell, New Jersey
Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around West Caldwell — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 3 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of West Caldwell, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside West Caldwell itself.
The rest sit in Montville Township (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near West Caldwell in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 20:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in West Caldwell
The readers mapped around West Caldwell break down as 2 Flock Safety, 1 Leonardo. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Bloomfield Avenue — 2 readers
- US 46 — 1 reader
West Caldwell 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.
What’s watching West Caldwell
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 West Caldwell — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to West Caldwell (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in West Caldwell
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 West Caldwell
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).