Flock & ALPR Cameras in Center City, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Center City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 3 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Center City, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Center City itself.
The rest sit in Franconia Township (1), Lindström (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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On the agenda: Center City meeting — Flock Camera (Oct 14)
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- Oct 7 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Center City
The readers mapped around Center City break down as 2 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Feb 2026.
- Lake Boulevard — 2 readers
Center City in the Chisago County picture
Chisago County has 26 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #617 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 57,434 residents and 1,126 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 26.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic.
What’s watching Center City
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 Center City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Center City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Center City
- On the agenda: Center City meeting — Flock Camera (Oct 14)
- On the agenda: Center City meeting — Flock Camera (Sep 9)
- On the agenda: Center City meeting — Flock Camera (Aug 12)
- On the agenda: Center City meeting — Flock Camera (Apr 8)
What you can do in Center City
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 Center City
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).