Flock & ALPR Cameras in Mendota Heights, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Mendota Heights — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 6 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Mendota Heights, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Mendota Heights itself.
The rest sit in Saint Paul (3), Fort Snelling Unorganized Territory (2), Eagan (1).
3 of them name an operator in the record: Airport Police Department (2), Eagan (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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No new reports near Mendota Heights in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:33 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Mendota Heights
The readers mapped around Mendota Heights break down as 4 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Airport Police Department, Eagan. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Glumack Drive — 2 readers
- Lone Oak Road — 1 reader
- Saint Paul Avenue — 1 reader
- South Davern Street — 1 reader
- Edgcumbe Road — 1 reader
Mendota Heights in the Dakota County picture
Dakota County has 92 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,353 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 442,204 residents and 2,052 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 13.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic. Operators named on the record: Airport Police Department (2), Eagan (1).
Camera activity around Mendota Heights, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Mendota Heights. Latest change logged Aug 24, 2026.
What’s watching Mendota Heights
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 Mendota Heights — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Mendota Heights (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Mendota Heights
What you can do in Mendota Heights
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 Mendota Heights
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).