Flock & ALPR Cameras in Brainerd, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Brainerd — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 2 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Brainerd, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Brainerd itself.
The rest sit in Baxter (1), West Crow Wing (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 8 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 8 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Brainerd
The readers mapped around Brainerd break down as 2 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Jul 2026.
- Memorial Gardens Road — 1 reader
- Woida Road North — 1 reader
Brainerd in the Crow Wing County picture
Crow Wing County has 6 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,814 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic.
Camera activity around Brainerd, last 30 days
2 newly reported, 3 removed in our hourly change log for Brainerd. Latest change logged Sep 9, 2026.
What’s watching Brainerd
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 Brainerd — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Brainerd (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Brainerd
- Agendas - Brainerd Dispatch | News, weather, sports from Brainerd and Baxter
- Itasca County removes Flock Safety cameras; New weather radar installed in Brainerd
- 3 license plate readers reported removed near Brainerd, MN
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Brainerd, MN
What you can do in Brainerd
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 Brainerd
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).