Flock & ALPR Cameras in Longfellow Community, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 27 automated license plate readers in and around Longfellow Community — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 27 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Longfellow Community, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Longfellow Community itself.
The rest sit in Minneapolis (19), Saint Paul (8).
11 of them name an operator in the record: Minneapolis Police Department (5), Hennepin County Sheriff's Office (3), Temple of Aaron (2), Ramsey County Sheriff's Office (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 15 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 10 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 10 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 10 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Longfellow Community
The readers mapped around Longfellow Community break down as 21 Flock Safety, 5 Insight LPR. Named operators in the reports: Minneapolis Police Department, Hennepin County Sheriff's Office, Temple of Aaron, Ramsey County Sheriff's Office. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- East Lake Street — 7 readers
- Otis Avenue — 3 readers
- Southeast Huron Boulevard — 2 readers
- Ford Parkway — 2 readers
- West Hartford Avenue — 2 readers
- Cedar Avenue South — 2 readers
- Bloomington Avenue — 2 readers
- Chicago Avenue — 2 readers
- Marshall Avenue — 1 reader
- East River Parkway — 1 reader
- Riverside Avenue — 1 reader
- East 29th Street — 1 reader
Longfellow Community 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 22 traffic, 1 parking. Operators named on the record: Minneapolis Police Department (5), Hennepin County Sheriff's Office (3), Temple of Aaron (2).
Camera activity around Longfellow Community, last 30 days
7 newly reported in our hourly change log for Longfellow Community. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.
What’s watching Longfellow Community
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 Longfellow Community — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Longfellow Community (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Longfellow Community
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Longfellow Community, MN
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Longfellow Community, MN
- 7 license plate readers reported removed near Longfellow Community, MN
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Longfellow Community, MN
What you can do in Longfellow Community
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 Longfellow Community
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).