Flock & ALPR Cameras in Edina, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 46 automated license plate readers in and around Edina — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 46 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Edina, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 42 of them sit inside Edina itself.
The rest sit in Minnetonka (3), Eden Prairie (1).
7 of them name an operator in the record: Edina Police Department (6), Minnetonka 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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- Oct 6, 2026 On the agenda: Edina, MN City Council Work Session — Surveillance Camera (Oct 6)
- Aug 18, 2026 Edina, MN — City Council Meeting 2026-08-18
- Aug 18, 2026 In the minutes: Edina, MN City Council Meeting, license plate reader (Aug 18)
- Jan 20, 2026 In the minutes: Edina, MN Archive: City Council Meeting, flock camera (Jan 20)
Every record for this area on the Docket → · nothing is ever deleted.
- Oct 5 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Oct 5 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Oct 5 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Edina
The readers mapped around Edina break down as 43 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Edina Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West 69th Street — 7 readers
- France Avenue South — 4 readers
- York Avenue South — 4 readers
- West 70th Street — 4 readers
- West 66th Street — 2 readers
- Interlachen Boulevard — 2 readers
- Xerxes Avenue — 1 reader
- Edina — 1 reader
- West 44th Street — 1 reader
- Tracy Avenue — 1 reader
- West 77th Street — 1 reader
- West 60th Street — 1 reader
+ 14 more streets and roads mapped around Edina — all on the live map above.
Edina MN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Edina MN PD runs 22 cameras of its own, has logged 91 plate-database searches, has captured 307,922 vehicle records. Its network connects to 8 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Edina 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 41 traffic. Operators named on the record: Edina Police Department (6).
Camera activity around Edina, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 2 removed in our hourly change log for Edina. Latest change logged Aug 23, 2026.
What’s watching Edina
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 Edina — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Edina (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Edina
- On the agenda: Edina, MN City Council Work Session — Surveillance Camera (Oct 6)
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Edina, MN
- In the minutes: Edina, MN City Council Meeting, license plate reader (Aug 18)
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Edina, MN
What you can do in Edina
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 Edina
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).