Flock & ALPR Cameras in Bloomington, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Bloomington — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 10 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Bloomington, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 9 of them sit inside Bloomington itself.
The rest sit in Richfield (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 29 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 29 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 29 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Bloomington
The readers mapped around Bloomington break down as 6 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- East 84th Street — 3 readers
- Penn Avenue South — 1 reader
- American Boulevard West — 1 reader
- Central Parkway — 1 reader
- Killebrew Drive — 1 reader
Bloomington in the Hennepin County picture
Hennepin County has 486 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #776 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,268,903 residents and 3,422 road miles. By road density that is 0.14 cameras per road mile, in the top 2.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic, 1 entrance;parking.
Camera activity around Bloomington, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Bloomington. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Bloomington
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 Bloomington — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Bloomington (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Bloomington
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Bloomington, MN
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Bloomington, MN
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What you can do in Bloomington
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.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Bloomington
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).