Flock & ALPR Cameras in West Orange, New Jersey
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around West Orange — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of West Orange, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 3 of them sit inside West Orange itself.
The rest sit in Montclair (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 26 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in West Orange
The readers mapped around West Orange break down as 2 Motorola Solutions, 1 Axis Communications. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2026; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Eagle Rock Avenue — 1 reader
- Prospect Avenue — 1 reader
- Undercliff Road — 1 reader
West 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 3 traffic.
Camera activity around West Orange, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for West Orange. Latest change logged Sep 3, 2026.
What’s watching West 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 West Orange — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to West Orange (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around West Orange
What you can do in West 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.
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Cameras near West Orange
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).