About DeFlock Hopatcong
Residents have a right to know what surveillance technology their local government operates, on what authority, at what cost, and with what oversight. The Borough of Hopatcong runs four Flock Safety license plate reader cameras that log the movements of every vehicle that passes them, millions of times a year. This site exists to answer the basic questions that follow from that fact: who authorized it, what does it cost, what happens to the data, and did anyone ever ask residents first.
Our mission
This site is built for transparency, not to advocate for any one outcome. Every fact here traces back to a document, either the Borough's own response to a public records request or another public agency's records, obtained the same way. Where something is not known or not yet documented, this site says so plainly rather than guessing or implying more than the record supports.
Humans are not data. That is the belief underneath everything on this site: residents are not raw material for a surveillance network, and the bare minimum a local government owes them is an honest, documented account of what it has built and why.
How this site works
Content here is built from records obtained under the New Jersey Open Public Records Act. Every document is reviewed for personal information before it is published, consistent with Daniel's Law and standard privacy protections, and any error found is corrected in public. See the Data & Corrections page for that record.
This site does not claim to be neutral about whether residents deserve to know this information. It claims to be accurate about what the records actually show.
Ready to see the records for yourself, or do something with what you learn?