What are Flock Cameras and where are they in New Jersey?
The short version: A local NorthJersey reporter maps Flock ALPR creep across the state, putting numbers and neighborhoods behind what's usually an invisible surveillance network.
Our Take
Credit to Julian Leshay Guadalupe and the NorthJersey team for doing what most local news skips: actually pointing a camera at the cameras. Flock Safety has spent years quietly wiring up New Jersey towns with automated license plate readers, and it took a visual journalist walking viewers through the hardware to make the scale of it click for a lot of residents who had no idea these poles were logging their daily commute.
This is exactly the kind of local accountability reporting that matters more than another national think piece. Flock's pitch to town councils is always the same — solve car break-ins, find stolen vehicles — but the systems don't just watch for those cars. They log every plate, every time, building a permanent movement history on anyone who drives past, whether or not they're suspected of anything. New Jersey has quietly become one of the more Flock-saturated states in the country, and coverage like this is one of the few ways residents even learn a camera exists on their block.
If this video has you wondering what's watching your own street, check our camera map to see what's been documented near you, and visit our take-action page for ways to push back at the local level before your town's next Flock contract renewal.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of NorthJersey, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.