Verified ALPR — vendor unconfirmed
Are there Flock cameras in Elizabeth, New Jersey?
Elizabeth is watched — we just can't confirm by whom.
Are there Flock cameras in Elizabeth, New Jersey?
Our records document automated license plate reader use in Elizabeth, New Jersey recorded for Union County Police Department, Union County Prosecutor’s Office, Union County Sheriff’s Office and Elizabeth Police Department, but they do not establish Flock Safety as the vendor. Separately, 13 individual ALPR camera locations mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors fall inside the municipal boundary, 11 of them source-tagged Flock Safety.
- Agencies
- Union County Police Department, Union County Prosecutor’s Office, Union County Sheriff’s Office and Elizabeth Police Department
- County
- Union County
- Records on file
- 4
- Mapped cameras inside boundary
- 13
- Source-tagged Flock Safety
- 11
- Latest cited source
- 7/21/2025
- Database last updated
- 2026-08-07
What's on file
Agency
Union County Police Department
Agency type
Police
Jurisdiction
Municipal
County
Union County
State
New Jersey (NJ)
Vendor
No verified record currently in our database
The Union County Police Department received a $250,500 grant from the New Jersey Attorney General's Office in 2023 for automated license plate readers.
Sources · record AOS011882
Agency
Union County Prosecutor’s Office
Agency type
Prosecutor
Jurisdiction
County
County
Union County
State
New Jersey (NJ)
Vendor
No verified record currently in our database
The Union County Prosecutor’s Office has an automated license plate reader program, according to an audit released in July 2025 by the New Jersey State Police.
Sources · record AOS016150
- New Jersey State Police ↗7/21/2025
Agency
Union County Sheriff’s Office
Agency type
Sheriff
Jurisdiction
County
County
Union County
State
New Jersey (NJ)
Vendor
No verified record currently in our database
The Union County Sheriff’s Office has an automated license plate reader program, according to an audit released in July 2025 by the New Jersey State Police.
Sources · record AOS016151
- New Jersey State Police ↗7/21/2025
Agency
Elizabeth Police Department
Agency type
Police
Jurisdiction
Municipal
County
Union County
State
New Jersey (NJ)
Vendor
No verified record currently in our database
The Elizabeth Police Department has an automated license plate reader program, according to an audit released in July 2025 by the New Jersey State Police.
Sources · record AOS016158
- New Jersey State Police ↗7/21/2025
What this record does not say
These entries document that an agency has been reported to use ALPR technology. They do not establish camera counts, exact locations, cost, retention periods or sharing policies unless the linked source says so.
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Sources & records
Everything on this page traces back to the records below. Where a record carries no linked document, we say so instead of filling the gap.
Documented deployment records
- New Jersey Attorney General's Office ↗Union County Police Department · 4/28/2023 · record AOS011882
- New Jersey State Police ↗Union County Prosecutor’s Office · 7/21/2025 · record AOS016150
- New Jersey State Police ↗Union County Sheriff’s Office · 7/21/2025 · record AOS016151
- New Jersey State Police ↗Elizabeth Police Department · 7/21/2025 · record AOS016158
Deployment records come from the EFF Atlas of Surveillance ↗. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
Community-mapped camera locations
13 mapped camera points inside the Elizabeth boundary, from OpenStreetMap contributors via the DeFlock ↗ dataset (ODbL). Each point links to its own OpenStreetMap record in the camera list on this page.
Camera points are matched to this municipality by point-in-polygon containment against US Census Bureau cartographic boundaries (2023) — the coordinate falls inside the municipal boundary. Containment is a statement about location only, never about ownership, operation, purchase or deployment.
Nearby documented deployments
Other New Jersey communities with a record in our database — nearest by county first. Absence from this list is not evidence of absence.
- Berkeley HeightsALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- ClarkALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- CranfordALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- FanwoodALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- GarwoodALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- HillsideALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- KenilworthVerified Flock
- LindenALPR — vendor unconfirmed
Camera counts, contract prices, retention and sharing policies are shown only where we found a primary source. Where they're missing, the information is not publicly verified — see the Flock Files for the documents we do have.
Data attribution
Portions of the surveillance deployment data on this site come from the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Atlas of Surveillance. atlasofsurveillance.org ↗ Are You Flocked? is independent and is not affiliated with the EFF or Flock Safety. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
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