Flock & ALPR Cameras in Madison Lake, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Madison Lake — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Oct 3 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Madison Lake in the Blue Earth County picture
Blue Earth County has 11 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,532 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 69,386 residents and 2,203 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 60.4% of counties nationally.
What’s watching Madison Lake
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 Madison Lake — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Madison Lake (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Madison Lake
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 Madison Lake
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).