Flock & ALPR Cameras in Afton, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Afton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 9 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Afton, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Afton itself.
The rest sit in Woodbury (3), Denmark Township (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Afton
The readers mapped around Afton break down as 8 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Meadow Point Path — 1 reader
- Meadow Bluff Trail — 1 reader
- Bailey Road — 1 reader
- Valley Creek Road — 1 reader
- Denmark Township — 1 reader
- Saint Croix Trail South — 1 reader
- Stagecoach Trail South — 1 reader
- Dale Road — 1 reader
Afton in the Washington County picture
Washington County has 126 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #603 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 272,298 residents and 2,131 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 10.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic.
What’s watching Afton
These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond Afton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Afton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Afton
What you can do in Afton
Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.
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Cameras near Afton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).