Flock & ALPR Cameras in West Cape May, New Jersey
Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around West Cape May — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 1 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of West Cape May, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside West Cape May itself.
The rest sit in Cape May (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 6 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
West Cape May in the Cape May County picture
Cape May County has 18 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,429 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 95,236 residents and 1,013 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 31.1% of counties nationally.
What’s watching West Cape May
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 Cape May — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to West Cape May (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 Cape May
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 Cape May
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).