Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hastings, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 16 automated license plate readers in and around Hastings — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 21 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Hastings, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Hastings itself.
The rest sit in Cottage Grove (6), Denmark Township (6), Nininger Township (2), Ravenna Township (2).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Dakota County Sheriff's Office (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 19 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 12 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Hastings
The readers mapped around Hastings break down as 13 Flock Safety, 3 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Dakota County Sheriff's Office. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Ravenna Trail — 2 readers
- Point Douglas Drive South — 2 readers
- Manning Avenue South — 2 readers
- 132nd Street East — 1 reader
- General Sieben Drive — 1 reader
- South Frontage Road — 1 reader
- Lehigh Road South — 1 reader
- Point Douglas Regional Trail — 1 reader
- West 11th Street — 1 reader
- East 2nd Street — 1 reader
- Minnesota Highway 55 — 1 reader
- 102nd Street South — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around Hastings — all on the live map above.
Hastings 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 16 traffic. Operators named on the record: Dakota County Sheriff's Office (2).
What’s watching Hastings
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 Hastings — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hastings (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Hastings
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Hastings, MN
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Hastings, MN
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Hastings, MN
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Hastings, MN
What you can do in Hastings
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 Hastings
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).