Verified ALPR — vendor unconfirmed
Are there Flock cameras in Newton, New Jersey?
Newton is watched — we just can't confirm by whom.
Are there Flock cameras in Newton, New Jersey?
Our records document automated license plate reader use in Newton, New Jersey recorded for Sussex County Prosecutor’s Office, Sussex County Sheriff’s Office and Newton Police Department, but they do not establish Flock Safety as the vendor. Separately, 2 individual ALPR camera locations mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors fall inside the municipal boundary, 2 of them source-tagged Flock Safety.
- Agencies
- Sussex County Prosecutor’s Office, Sussex County Sheriff’s Office and Newton Police Department
- County
- Sussex County
- Records on file
- 3
- Mapped cameras inside boundary
- 2
- Source-tagged Flock Safety
- 2
- Latest cited source
- 7/21/2025
- Database last updated
- 2026-08-07
What's on file
Agency
Sussex County Prosecutor’s Office
Agency type
Prosecutor
Jurisdiction
County
County
Sussex County
State
New Jersey (NJ)
Vendor
No verified record currently in our database
The Sussex 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 AOS016171
- New Jersey State Police ↗7/21/2025
Agency
Sussex County Sheriff’s Office
Agency type
Sheriff
Jurisdiction
County
County
Sussex County
State
New Jersey (NJ)
Vendor
No verified record currently in our database
The Sussex 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 AOS016172
- New Jersey State Police ↗7/21/2025
Agency
Newton Police Department
Agency type
Police
Jurisdiction
Municipal
County
Sussex County
State
New Jersey (NJ)
Vendor
No verified record currently in our database
The Newton 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 AOS016178
- 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 State Police ↗Sussex County Prosecutor’s Office · 7/21/2025 · record AOS016171
- New Jersey State Police ↗Sussex County Sheriff’s Office · 7/21/2025 · record AOS016172
- New Jersey State Police ↗Newton Police Department · 7/21/2025 · record AOS016178
Deployment records come from the EFF Atlas of Surveillance ↗. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
Community-mapped camera locations
2 mapped camera points inside the Newton 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.
- Andover TownshipALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- FranklinALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- HamburgALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- HopatcongALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- OgdensburgALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- SpartaALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- StanhopeALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- Vernon TownshipALPR — 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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