Flock & ALPR Cameras in Coon Rapids, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 20 automated license plate readers in and around Coon Rapids — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 21 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Coon Rapids, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 10 of them sit inside Coon Rapids itself.
The rest sit in Blaine (8), Fridley (2), Brooklyn Park (1).
3 of them name an operator in the record: The Home Depot (3). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 1 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Coon Rapids
The readers mapped around Coon Rapids break down as 20 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Northtown Drive — 5 readers
- University Avenue Northeast — 2 readers
- 94th Avenue Northwest — 2 readers
- Frontage Road — 2 readers
- Jefferson Street Northeast — 1 reader
- Blaine — 1 reader
- 83rd Avenue Northeast — 1 reader
- 85th Avenue Northwest — 1 reader
- Lafayette Street Northeast — 1 reader
- Springbrook Drive Northwest — 1 reader
- Foley Boulevard — 1 reader
- Coon Rapids Boulevard Northwest — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around Coon Rapids — all on the live map above.
Coon Rapids MN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Coon Rapids MN PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 39 other agencies.
Coon Rapids 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 17 traffic, 2 public. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (3).
Camera activity around Coon Rapids, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Coon Rapids. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Coon Rapids
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 Coon Rapids — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Coon Rapids (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Coon Rapids
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Coon Rapids, MN
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near West Coon Rapids, MN
What you can do in Coon Rapids
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 Coon Rapids
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).