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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Farmington, Minnesota

Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Farmington — 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 Farmington, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Farmington itself.

The rest sit in Hampton Township (1).

1 of them name an operator in the record: Dakota County Sheriff's Office (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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Reported cameras nearby
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Live camera map 1 reported cameras around Farmington, Minnesota
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Farmington

No new reports near Farmington in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:00 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Farmington

The readers mapped around Farmington break down as 1 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Dakota County Sheriff's Office. Every report here dates to Dec 2025.

  • Northfield Boulevard — 1 reader

Farmington in the Dakota County picture

Dakota County has 92 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,353 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 442,204 residents and 2,052 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 13.6% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic. Operators named on the record: Dakota County Sheriff's Office (1).

What’s watching Farmington

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 Farmington — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Farmington (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Farmington

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.

Cameras near Farmington

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).