Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hopkins, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Hopkins — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 7 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Hopkins, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Hopkins itself.
The rest sit in Eden Prairie (3), Minnetonka (3).
3 of them name an operator in the record: Minnetonka Police Department (2), Hopkins PD (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 Hopkins in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 12:31 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Hopkins
The readers mapped around Hopkins break down as 6 Flock Safety, 1 Genetec, 1 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Jan 2026.
- Optum Way — 2 readers
- 11th Avenue South — 1 reader
- Red Circle Drive — 1 reader
- Williston Road — 1 reader
- Minnesota State Highway 7 — 1 reader
- City West Parkway — 1 reader
- Bren Road — 1 reader
Hopkins MN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Hopkins MN PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 58 other agencies.
Hopkins in the Hennepin County picture
Hennepin County has 486 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #776 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,268,903 residents and 3,422 road miles. By road density that is 0.14 cameras per road mile, in the top 2.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic.
What’s watching Hopkins
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 Hopkins — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hopkins (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Hopkins
- 20 license plate readers reported removed near Hopkins, MN
- On the agenda: Hopkins meeting — surveillance camera (Jul 14)
- On the agenda: Hopkins meeting — license plate reader (May 19)
What you can do in Hopkins
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 Hopkins
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).