Flock & ALPR Cameras in Birchwood, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Birchwood — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Birchwood, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Birchwood itself.
The rest sit in Mahtomedi (4).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Birchwood in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 01:08 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Birchwood
The readers mapped around Birchwood break down as 2 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions, 1 Axis Communications. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Mahtomedi — 2 readers
- Woodland Drive — 1 reader
- Wildwood Road — 1 reader
Birchwood 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 4 traffic.
What’s watching Birchwood
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 Birchwood — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Birchwood (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Birchwood
What you can do in Birchwood
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 Birchwood
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).