Flock & ALPR Cameras in Grand Rapids, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Grand Rapids — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Grand Rapids, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 7 of them sit inside Grand Rapids itself.
The rest sit in Harris Township (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: The Home Depot (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 Grand Rapids in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 13:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Grand Rapids
The readers mapped around Grand Rapids break down as 8 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot. Every report here dates to Mar 2026.
- Voyageur Highway — 3 readers
- Northwest 4th Street — 2 readers
- Northwest 3rd Avenue — 1 reader
- State Highway 38 — 1 reader
- Southeast 4th Street — 1 reader
Grand Rapids MN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Grand Rapids MN PD runs 9 cameras of its own, has logged 127 plate-database searches, has captured 94,296 vehicle records. Its network connects to 27 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Grand Rapids in the Itasca County picture
Itasca County has 19 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #678 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 45,141 residents and 3,629 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 59.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (1).
What’s watching Grand Rapids
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 Grand Rapids — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Grand Rapids (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Grand Rapids
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 Grand Rapids
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).