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Are there Flock cameras in Newark, New Jersey?

Newark is watched — we just can't confirm by whom.

Are there Flock cameras in Newark, New Jersey?

Our records document automated license plate reader use in Newark, New Jersey recorded for Newark Police Department, Essex County Prosecutor’s Office and Essex County Sheriff’s Office, but they do not establish Flock Safety as the vendor. Separately, 9 individual ALPR camera locations mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors fall inside the municipal boundary, 9 of them source-tagged Flock Safety.

Agencies
Newark Police Department, Essex County Prosecutor’s Office and Essex County Sheriff’s Office
County
Essex County
Records on file
3
Mapped cameras inside boundary
9
Source-tagged Flock Safety
9
Latest cited source
7/21/2025
Database last updated
2026-08-07
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What's on file

Agency

Newark Police Department

Agency type

Police

Jurisdiction

Municipal

County

Essex County

State

New Jersey (NJ)

Vendor

No verified record currently in our database

The Newark Police Department received a $595,000 grant from the New Jersey Attorney General's Office in 2023 for automated license plate readers.

Sources · record AOS011873

Agency

Essex County Prosecutor’s Office

Agency type

Prosecutor

Jurisdiction

County

County

Essex County

State

New Jersey (NJ)

Vendor

No verified record currently in our database

The Essex 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 AOS016381

Agency

Essex County Sheriff’s Office

Agency type

Sheriff

Jurisdiction

County

County

Essex County

State

New Jersey (NJ)

Vendor

No verified record currently in our database

The Essex 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 AOS016382

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

Deployment records come from the EFF Atlas of Surveillance ↗. Database last updated 2026-08-07.

Community-mapped camera locations

9 mapped camera points inside the Newark 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.

All New Jersey records →

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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