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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Glencoe, Minnesota

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

The rest sit in Helen Township (1).

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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Reported cameras nearby
#161
of 199 Minnesota cities tracked
0.1%
of Minnesota’s reported cameras
Live camera map 1 reported cameras around Glencoe, 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 Glencoe

No new reports near Glencoe in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 19, 13:54 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Glencoe

The readers mapped around Glencoe break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Aug 2026.

  • US 212 — 1 reader

Glencoe in the McLeod County picture

McLeod County has 3 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,845 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 36,771 residents and 1,247 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 77.1% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic.

What’s watching Glencoe

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

What you can do in Glencoe

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 Glencoe

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