Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lake Elmo, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Lake Elmo — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 10 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lake Elmo, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside Lake Elmo itself.
The rest sit in Woodbury (3), Baytown Township (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Lake Elmo
The readers mapped around Lake Elmo break down as 8 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- 30th Street North — 3 readers
- Manning Avenue North — 2 readers
- Lake Elmo Avenue North — 1 reader
- Hudson Road — 1 reader
- Manning Avenue South — 1 reader
- Lake Elmo — 1 reader
Lake Elmo in the Washington County picture
Washington County has 126 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #603 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 272,298 residents and 2,131 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 10.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 9 traffic.
What’s watching Lake Elmo
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 Lake Elmo — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lake Elmo (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Lake Elmo
What you can do in Lake Elmo
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 Lake Elmo
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).