Flock & ALPR Cameras in Excelsior, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Excelsior — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 2 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Excelsior, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Excelsior itself.
The rest sit in Greenwood (1).
2 of them name an operator in the record: SLMPD (1), South Lake 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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No new reports near Excelsior in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 14:12 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Excelsior
The readers mapped around Excelsior break down as 2 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: South Lake Minnetonka Police Department, SLMPD. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Nov 2025.
- Oak Street — 1 reader
- Christmas Lake Road — 1 reader
Excelsior 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: South Lake Minnetonka Police Department (1), SLMPD (1).
What’s watching Excelsior
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 Excelsior — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Excelsior (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Excelsior
- On the agenda: Excelsior meeting — license plate recognition (Feb 18)
- Shorewood , Excelsior consider current Flock safety cameras continuation
What you can do in Excelsior
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 Excelsior
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).