Flock & ALPR Cameras in Centerville, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Centerville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 1 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Centerville, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Centerville itself.
The rest sit in Lino Lakes (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Centerville in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 14:12 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Centerville
The readers mapped around Centerville break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Feb 2026.
- Country Highway 21 — 1 reader
Centerville in the Anoka County picture
Anoka County has 137 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #810 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 367,095 residents and 2,400 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 10.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic.
What’s watching Centerville
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 Centerville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Centerville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Centerville
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 Centerville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).