Flock & ALPR Cameras in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Detroit Lakes — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Oct 5 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Detroit Lakes
The readers mapped around Detroit Lakes break down as 7 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2022; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- US 10 — 2 readers
- Front Street West — 1 reader
- County Highway 6 — 1 reader
- US 59;MN 34 — 1 reader
- East Shore Drive — 1 reader
- Detroit Lakes — 1 reader
- County Highway 21 — 1 reader
Detroit Lakes MN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Detroit Lakes MN PD runs 6 cameras of its own, has captured 122,538 vehicle records. Its network connects to 64 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, Champlin MN PD.
Detroit Lakes in the Becker County picture
Becker County has 10 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,069 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 35,260 residents and 2,094 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 61.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic, 1 residential.
What’s watching Detroit Lakes
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 Detroit Lakes — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Detroit Lakes (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Detroit Lakes
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 Detroit Lakes
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).