Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lauderdale, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers in and around Lauderdale — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 11 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lauderdale, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Lauderdale itself.
The rest sit in Minneapolis (10), Roseville (1).
3 of them name an operator in the record: Minneapolis Police Department (1), Roseville Police Department (1), University of Minnesota Police Department (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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- Sep 24 Axon Enterprise camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Lauderdale
The readers mapped around Lauderdale break down as 9 Flock Safety, 1 Insight LPR. Named operators in the reports: University of Minnesota Police Department, Roseville Police Department, Minneapolis Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Northeast Godward Street — 3 readers
- Southeast University Avenue — 2 readers
- Southeast 15th Avenue — 1 reader
- Northeast Industrial Boulevard — 1 reader
- Cleveland Avenue North — 1 reader
- Southeast Williams Avenue — 1 reader
- New Brighton Boulevard — 1 reader
Lauderdale in the Ramsey County picture
Ramsey County has 81 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,569 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 544,438 residents and 1,278 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 9.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 10 traffic. Operators named on the record: University of Minnesota Police Department (1), Roseville Police Department (1), Minneapolis Police Department (1).
What’s watching Lauderdale
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 Lauderdale — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lauderdale (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Lauderdale
What you can do in Lauderdale
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.
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Cameras near Lauderdale
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).