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Where the Flock cameras are

Flock cameras are automated license plate readers: they photograph every plate that passes and log the plate number, the time, and the place. This map shows the 59 reported in Hunterdon County.

Updated August 2026

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Every mapped camera, as a list

  1. Delaware Township — Surveillance camera, plate reading not confirmed — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — Generic surveillance camera, not explicitly tagged ALPR/manufacturer. OSM crowdsource only.
  2. Readington Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: Readington Township Police Department — reported, not independently confirmed — OSM/DeFlock node tags operator explicitly as Readington Twp PD; no independent news corroboration found for this specific location.
  3. Readington Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: Readington Township Police Department — reported, not independently confirmed — OSM/DeFlock operator tag: Readington Twp PD.
  4. Raritan Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — No operator tag; crowdsourced OSM/DeFlock node only.
  5. Readington Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — No operator tag.
  6. Raritan Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — No operator tag.
  7. Readington Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — No operator tag.
  8. Readington Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: Readington Township Police Department — reported, not independently confirmed — OSM/DeFlock operator tag: Readington Twp PD.
  9. Readington Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: Readington Township Police Department — reported, not independently confirmed — OSM/DeFlock operator tag: Readington Twp PD.
  10. Readington Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: Readington Township Police Department — reported, not independently confirmed — OSM/DeFlock operator tag: Readington Twp PD.
  11. Flemington — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — No operator tag.
  12. Raritan Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — No operator tag.
  13. Raritan Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — No operator tag.
  14. Raritan Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — No operator tag.
  15. Raritan Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — check_date 2025-10-18 in OSM (recent field verification by DeFlock mapper). No agency name tagged.
  16. Raritan Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: The Home Depot (private) — on private property — reported, not independently confirmed — Tagged operator:type=private, operator=The Home Depot. Likely a private retail-security Flock camera, not a police-owned unit.
  17. East Amwell Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — check_date 2025-12-25.
  18. West Amwell Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — check_date 2025-12-25.
  19. Raritan Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — check_date 2025-12-25.
  20. Raritan Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — check_date 2025-12-25.
  21. Raritan Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — No operator tag.
  22. Raritan Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — check_date 2025-12-25.
  23. Raritan Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — check_date 2025-12-25.
  24. Clinton Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — check_date 2025-12-25.
  25. Clinton Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — check_date 2025-12-25.
  26. Clinton Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — check_date 2025-12-25.
  27. Clinton Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — OSM fixme: 'Verify exact location' - mapper flagged coordinate as uncertain. check_date 2025-12-25.
  28. Clinton Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — OSM fixme: 'Verify exact location' - mapper flagged coordinate as uncertain. check_date 2025-12-25.
  29. Raritan Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — check_date 2025-12-25.
  30. Flemington — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — check_date 2025-12-25.
  31. Raritan Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — No operator tag.
  32. Readington Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — No operator tag.
  33. Raritan Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — No operator tag.
  34. Raritan Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — check_date 2025-1-30.
  35. Raritan Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — check_date 2025-1-30.
  36. Union Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — No operator tag.
  37. Readington Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — No operator tag.
  38. Holland Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — check_date 2026-02-28 (most recently verified node in dataset).
  39. Flemington — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — camera:mount=street_lamp.
  40. Flemington — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — No operator tag.
  41. East Amwell Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — No operator tag.
  42. Readington Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — camera:mount=traffic_signals.
  43. Union Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — No operator tag.
  44. Readington Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — No operator tag.
  45. Tewksbury Township — Plate reader, non-Flock brand — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — manufacturer=Motorola Solutions (Vigilant/Motorola ALPR, not Flock). Coordinate is near the northern edge of Hunterdon County; verify municipal boundary before publishing.
  46. Bloomsbury — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — No operator tag.
  47. Readington Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — No operator tag.
  48. Clinton Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — No operator tag.
  49. Stockton — Plate reader, non-Flock brand — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — manufacturer=Motorola Solutions (Vigilant ALPR, not Flock/Axon).
  50. Clinton Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — check_date 2026-05-16.
  51. Franklin Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — No operator tag.
  52. Clinton Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — check_date 2026-06-27 (recently verified).
  53. Raritan Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — No operator tag.
  54. Clinton Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — No operator tag.
  55. Union Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — No operator tag.
  56. Union Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — No operator tag.
  57. Clinton Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — No operator tag.
  58. Clinton Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — No operator tag.
  59. Clinton Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — No operator tag.
  60. Clinton Township — Flock Safety plate reader — operator: not named in the source data — reported, not independently confirmed — No operator tag.

Zoom in until the grouped counts break apart, then click a pin for the operator, the town, and the link the report came from. Of the 60 pins, 57 are tagged Flock Safety, 2 another plate reader brand, and 1 is a surveillance camera not confirmed as a plate reader. 1 of the 60 is on private property (a Home Depot); the rest name a police agency or no operator at all. Coordinates come from crowdsourced reports and can be off by a pole or two, and a camera can be moved or taken down without notice. Nothing on this map has been independently confirmed yet, so every pin reads as reported. Want to look beyond the county line? DeFlock's national map covers reported plate readers across the entire U.S.

59license plate readers mapped in Hunterdon County
57of those tagged Flock Safety
2of those tagged another plate reader brand
1surveillance camera not confirmed as a plate reader
60pins, every one reported and none independently confirmed

By town

Town comes from the camera's coordinates checked against the Census municipal boundary, not from the report. Pick a town to move the map to its pins.

Where this comes from, and what it does not say

The pins come from OpenStreetMap, the crowdsourced map anyone can edit. Plate reader locations there are largely contributed through DeFlock, a volunteer project that maps automated plate readers and pushes what it finds back into OpenStreetMap. That means the underlying reports are from members of the public who saw a camera, not from any agency's records.

Those points were cross-checked against the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Atlas of Surveillance, which tracks documented police surveillance technology. The Atlas has one Hunterdon County entry: the Hunterdon County Prosecutor's Office, which received a $184,200 grant from the New Jersey Attorney General's Office in 2023 for plate reader technology, part of an award that went to agencies in all 21 counties. The Atlas lists no camera locations, so it confirms the county has a plate reader program without saying where any unit sits.

5 of the pins name an operator: Readington Township Police Department, tagged that way by the OpenStreetMap contributor who added them. That is the only municipal police department named anywhere in the data for this county. One pin names a private operator, a Home Depot on Route 202, and is marked private on the map so a retailer's camera is not read as a police one. The rest carry no operator tag at all, which is why most pins say the operator is not named.

Every pin on this map is "reported." Reported means somebody says a camera is there and we have a link to that report. It does not mean we went and looked, and it does not mean an agency has confirmed the camera exists, who runs it, or whether it is switched on. A pin will only move to "confirmed" when a public record, an agency response, or a first-hand check ties that specific location to a specific camera.

What this map cannot tell you: how long any of these systems keep the plate data, who they share it with, or whether a given camera is currently working. New Jersey State Police publish statewide plate reader audits, and public records requests to individual departments are the route to those answers.

Sources: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) via the Overpass API · DeFlock · EFF Atlas of Surveillance · US Census TIGER municipal boundaries. Checked 2026-08-06.

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