Minnesota · Local Surveillance Report

Flock & ALPR Cameras in Independence, Minnesota

Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Independence — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

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Live camera map 2 reported cameras around Independence, 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 Independence

No new reports near Independence in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 13:04 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Independence

The readers mapped around Independence break down as 2 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.

County Road 90 — 1 reader
Babcock Boulevard — 1 reader

Independence 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 2 traffic.

Camera activity around Independence, last 30 days

1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Independence. Latest change logged Aug 18, 2026.

What’s watching Independence

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

What you can do in Independence

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 Independence

Maple Plain (1) Delano (8) Rockford (1) Greenfield (1)

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