Flock & ALPR Cameras in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 23 automated license plate readers in and around Brooklyn Center — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 23 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Brooklyn Center, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 18 of them sit inside Brooklyn Center itself.
The rest sit in Brooklyn Park (5).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Brooklyn Center in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:18 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Brooklyn Center
The readers mapped around Brooklyn Center break down as 23 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Brooklyn Boulevard — 3 readers
- Zane Avenue North — 3 readers
- Northway Drive — 3 readers
- Xerxes Avenue North — 2 readers
- Humboldt Avenue North — 2 readers
- 65th Avenue North — 2 readers
- Logan Avenue North — 1 reader
- Twin Lakes Regional Trail — 1 reader
- 63rd Avenue North — 1 reader
- County Road 10 — 1 reader
- Summit Drive North — 1 reader
- 70th Avenue North — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Brooklyn Center — all on the live map above.
Brooklyn Center MN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Brooklyn Center MN PD runs 10 cameras of its own, has logged 115 plate-database searches, has captured 252,903 vehicle records. Its network connects to 57 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Anoka County MN SO, Anoka MN PD, Belle Plaine MN PD, Blaine MN PD, Brooklyn Park MN PD, Champlin MN PD, Columbia Heights MN PD, Coon Rapids MN PD.
Brooklyn Center 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 22 traffic.
Camera activity around Brooklyn Center, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Brooklyn Center. Latest change logged Aug 20, 2026.
What’s watching Brooklyn Center
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 Brooklyn Center — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Brooklyn Center (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Brooklyn Center
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 Brooklyn Center
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).