Flock & ALPR Cameras in Dayton, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Dayton — 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 Dayton, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Dayton itself.
The rest sit in Ramsey (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Ramsey Police Department (1). 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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No new reports near Dayton in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:19 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Dayton
The readers mapped around Dayton break down as 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Ramsey Police Department. Every report here dates to Apr 2025.
- Alpine Drive Northwest — 1 reader
Dayton MN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Dayton MN PD runs 7 cameras of its own, has logged 9 plate-database searches, has captured 139,728 vehicle records. Its network connects to 100 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Aitkin County MN SO, Alexandria MN PD, Anoka County MN SO, Anoka MN PD, Becker County MN SO, Belle Plaine MN PD, Blaine MN PD, Brooklyn Park MN PD.
Dayton 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. Operators named on the record: Ramsey Police Department (1).
Camera activity around Dayton, last 30 days
1 removed in our hourly change log for Dayton. Latest change logged Aug 25, 2026.
What’s watching Dayton
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 Dayton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Dayton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Dayton
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 Dayton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).