Flock & ALPR Cameras in Fridley, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 19 automated license plate readers in and around Fridley — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 19 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Fridley, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 16 of them sit inside Fridley itself.
The rest sit in Brooklyn Center (3).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Fridley in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:11 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Fridley
The readers mapped around Fridley break down as 19 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- 66th Avenue North — 3 readers
- 57th Avenue Northeast — 3 readers
- Main Street Northeast — 3 readers
- East River Road — 2 readers
- Fridley — 2 readers
- Moore Lake Drive West — 1 reader
- 53rd Avenue Northeast — 1 reader
- Central Avenue Northeast — 1 reader
- University Service Road — 1 reader
- Mississippi Street Northeast — 1 reader
- Mississippi Way Northeast — 1 reader
Fridley MN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Fridley MN PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 65 other agencies.
Fridley in the Anoka County picture
Anoka County has 137 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #810 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 367,095 residents and 2,400 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 10.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 18 traffic.
Camera activity around Fridley, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Fridley. Latest change logged Aug 18, 2026.
What’s watching Fridley
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 Fridley — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Fridley (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Fridley
- Fridley council candidates weigh taxes, license plate readers
- MINNEAPOLIMEDIA NEWS UPDATE | Fridley Public Safety Responds to Questions About License-Plate Readers and Police Drones
- Fridley keeping ALPR cameras up amidst negative feedback
- Fridley restricts out-of-state access to Flock license plate reader data
What you can do in Fridley
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 Fridley
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).