Flock & ALPR Cameras in Champlin, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Champlin — 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 Champlin, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Champlin itself.
The rest sit in Anoka (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Champlin in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 08:00 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Champlin
The readers mapped around Champlin break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Dec 2025.
- South Ferry Street — 1 reader
Champlin MN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Champlin MN PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 52 other agencies.
Champlin 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 1 traffic.
Camera activity around Champlin, last 30 days
6 removed in our hourly change log for Champlin. Latest change logged Aug 31, 2026.
What’s watching Champlin
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 Champlin — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Champlin (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Champlin
- Champlin weighs future of Flock cameras in the city after they were temporarily removed last month
- Champlin city leaders discuss Flock cameras
- Champlin MN Pulls Flock License Plate Cameras After Vandalism
- Vandals Force Champlin to Pull Flock Cameras Amid Statewide Surveillance Revolt
What you can do in Champlin
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 Champlin
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).