Flock & ALPR Cameras in Moorhead, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers in and around Moorhead — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 16 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 7 new license plate readers just reported around Moorhead, MN. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #Moorhead
Where the cameras are in Moorhead
The readers mapped around Moorhead break down as 10 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- 1st Avenue North — 3 readers
- 15th Avenue North — 1 reader
- 18th Avenue South — 1 reader
- 30th Avenue South — 1 reader
- Moorhead — 1 reader
- 20th Street — 1 reader
- Main Avenue — 1 reader
- 3rd Street North — 1 reader
Moorhead MN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Moorhead MN PD runs 8 cameras of its own, has logged 16 plate-database searches, has captured 165,120 vehicle records.
Moorhead in the Clay County picture
Clay County has 8 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,658 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 10 traffic.
What’s watching Moorhead
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 Moorhead — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Moorhead (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Moorhead
- Flock camera tech helps Moorhead police catch Staples man in trailer theft
- 7 new license plate readers reported around Moorhead, MN
- 8 new license plate readers reported around Moorhead, MN
What you can do in Moorhead
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 Moorhead
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).