Flock & ALPR Cameras in Cottage Grove, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 119 automated license plate readers in and around Cottage Grove — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 119 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Cottage Grove, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 116 of them sit inside Cottage Grove itself.
The rest sit in Woodbury (3).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 5 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Oct 5 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Oct 5 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Oct 5 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 8 new license plate readers just reported around Cottage Grove, MN. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #CottageGrove
📷 41 new license plate readers just reported around Cottage Grove, MN. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #CottageGrove
📷 22 new license plate readers just reported around Cottage Grove, MN. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #CottageGrove
Where the cameras are in Cottage Grove
The readers mapped around Cottage Grove break down as 41 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- East Point Douglas Road South — 7 readers
- 80th Street South — 5 readers
- Grange Boulevard — 5 readers
- Cottage Grove — 4 readers
- Jamaica Avenue South — 4 readers
- 97th Street South — 2 readers
- Kimbro Avenue South — 1 reader
- Innovation Road — 1 reader
- 70th Street South — 1 reader
- Hinton Avenue South — 1 reader
- 103rd Street South — 1 reader
- Military Road — 1 reader
+ 9 more streets and roads mapped around Cottage Grove — all on the live map above.
Cottage Grove in the Washington County picture
Washington County has 126 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #603 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 272,298 residents and 2,131 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 10.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 42 traffic.
Camera activity around Cottage Grove, last 30 days
4 newly reported, 6 removed in our hourly change log for Cottage Grove. Latest change logged Sep 4, 2026.
What’s watching Cottage Grove
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 Cottage Grove — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Cottage Grove (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Cottage Grove
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Cottage Grove, MN
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Cottage Grove, MN
- 7 license plate readers reported removed near Cottage Grove, MN
- 8 new license plate readers reported around Cottage Grove, MN
What you can do in Cottage Grove
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 Cottage Grove
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).