Flock & ALPR Cameras in Maple Grove, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Maple Grove — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 7 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Maple Grove, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 3 of them sit inside Maple Grove itself.
The rest sit in Plymouth (4).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Maple Grove in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:32 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Maple Grove
The readers mapped around Maple Grove break down as 7 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Dec 2025.
- Zachary Lane North — 2 readers
- Northwest Boulevard — 1 reader
- Vicksburg Lane North — 1 reader
- Fountains Drive North — 1 reader
- Holly Lane North — 1 reader
- 51st Avenue North — 1 reader
Maple Grove MN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Maple Grove MN PD runs 1 cameras of its own, has logged 85 plate-database searches, has captured 3,765 vehicle records. Its network connects to 82 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Aitkin County MN SO, Alexandria MN PD, Anoka County MN SO, Anoka MN PD, Becker County MN SO, Belle Plaine MN PD, Blaine MN PD, Brooklyn Center MN PD.
Maple Grove 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 7 traffic.
Camera activity around Maple Grove, last 30 days
2 removed in our hourly change log for Maple Grove. Latest change logged Aug 23, 2026.
What’s watching Maple Grove
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 Maple Grove — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Maple Grove (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Maple Grove
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Maple Grove, MN
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Maple Grove, MN
- On the agenda: Maple Grove meeting — Flock Safety (Apr 6)
What you can do in Maple Grove
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 Maple Grove
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).