Atlas · State

New Jersey

What is documented about automated license plate surveillance in New Jersey — and what is still an open question.

Are automated license plate readers used in New Jersey?

Yes. Volunteers have recorded 1,692 automated license plate reader camera locations in New Jersey, across 21 counties. That is a floor, not an inventory — it counts what someone has mapped, not what exists.

Camera data retrieved Aug 15, 2026 · No dated records held

1,692 Camera coordinates 1.4% of the 118,623 we hold nationally. Community-reported, not field-verified by us.
21 Counties with a mapped camera Assigned geometrically from Census county boundaries. A county with no entry has no mapped camera, which is not the same as none.
0 Documented decisions No government decision on record here yet.
0 Full dossiers Places researched down to retention, sharing, warrant standard, and audit policy — including the fields that come back unknown.

Known ALPR locations

Coverage incomplete

  • Camera coordinate
  • Jurisdiction record — no camera coordinates held
  • Program ended, declined, or prohibited

1,692 mapped camera coordinates · 42 jurisdiction records · 50 of 50 states have data. Camera coordinates © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Boundaries and roads: US Census, public domain. Roads are drawn for orientation only — a camera near a road is not a claim about which road it watches.

Pinned to New Jersey. Open the national Atlas to compare with neighbouring states.

Who supplies the cameras

Vendor attribution as recorded by OpenStreetMap contributors. Where a contributor did not identify the vendor the record reads “Unspecified” — that is an unrecorded fact, not a vendorless camera.

Vendor Mapped cameras Share
Flock Safety 1,059 62.6%
Motorola Solutions 256 15.1%
Unspecified 151 8.9%
Leonardo/Elsag 77 4.6%
Neology 32 1.9%
PaceTalk 26 1.5%
Axis Communications 24 1.4%
Axon 22 1.3%
Genetec 21 1.2%
Kapsch 14 0.8%
Rekor 7 0.4%
Dahua 3 0.2%

Where in New Jersey

1,651 mapped cameras assigned to the county containing them. The 9 remaining counties with at least one mapped camera are in the open data.

  • Middlesex 264
  • Somerset 163
  • Union 133
  • Bergen 123
  • Morris 119
  • Gloucester 104
  • Monmouth 101
  • Essex 85
  • Atlantic 78
  • Ocean 74
  • Camden 70
  • Burlington 63

Signal

No Signal story yet names New Jersey. That is a gap in our coverage rather than a quiet state — send us what you are seeing.

National developments that apply here

These are not about New Jersey specifically. They govern the cameras in it.

What we don’t know about New Jersey

We hold no researched record for New Jersey deep enough to have produced open questions yet. That is the largest gap on this page.

We don’t know yet. Help us find out.

Unsurveilled holds no documented ALPR decision for any New Jersey jurisdiction. That is a statement about our research capacity, not about New Jersey.