Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lakeland, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Lakeland — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 12 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Lakeland 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.
What’s watching Lakeland
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 Lakeland — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lakeland (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Lakeland
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 Lakeland
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).