Flock & ALPR Cameras in Burnsville, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 15 automated license plate readers in and around Burnsville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 15 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Burnsville, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 14 of them sit inside Burnsville itself.
The rest sit in Lakeville (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Burnsville in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:21 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Burnsville
The readers mapped around Burnsville break down as 15 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Nicollet Boulevard West — 6 readers
- Aldrich Avenue South — 4 readers
- Grand Avenue — 2 readers
- Burnsville — 1 reader
- Selkirk Drive — 1 reader
- Kenwood Trail — 1 reader
Burnsville in the Dakota County picture
Dakota County has 92 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,353 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 442,204 residents and 2,052 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 13.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 15 traffic.
What’s watching Burnsville
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 Burnsville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Burnsville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Burnsville
What you can do in Burnsville
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 Burnsville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).