Flock & ALPR Cameras in Forest Lake, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 15 automated license plate readers in and around Forest Lake — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 15 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Forest Lake, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 14 of them sit inside Forest Lake itself.
The rest sit in Wyoming (1).
2 of them name an operator in the record: The Home Depot (2). 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 Forest Lake in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 12:30 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Forest Lake
The readers mapped around Forest Lake break down as 15 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- West Broadway Avenue — 3 readers
- 11th Avenue Southwest — 2 readers
- Forest Lake — 2 readers
- 2nd Street Northwest — 1 reader
- 240th Street North — 1 reader
- Scandia Trail North — 1 reader
- 12th Street Southwest — 1 reader
- Hardwood Creek Trail — 1 reader
- 19th Street Southwest — 1 reader
- Blue Star Memorial Highway/34th Infantry (Red Bull) Division Highway/Shawn Silvera Memorial Highway — 1 reader
- Everton Avenue North — 1 reader
Forest Lake MN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Forest Lake MN PD runs 16 cameras of its own, has logged 60 plate-database searches, has captured 219,231 vehicle records. Its network connects to 7 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Anoka County MN SO, Chisago County MN SO, Lakes Area MN PD, Stillwater MN PD, Woodbury MN DPS, Wyoming MN PD.
Forest Lake in the Washington County picture
Washington County has 126 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #603 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 272,298 residents and 2,131 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 10.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 10 traffic, 1 street. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (2).
What’s watching Forest Lake
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 Forest Lake — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Forest Lake (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Forest Lake
- On the agenda: Forest Lake meeting — Flock camera (Aug 10)
- On the agenda: Forest Lake meeting — Flock Safety (Jun 15)
What you can do in Forest Lake
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 Forest Lake
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).