Flock & ALPR Cameras in Mounds View, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Mounds View — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 10 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Mounds View, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 8 of them sit inside Mounds View itself.
The rest sit in Blaine (2).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Mounds View Police Department (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 Mounds View in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 10:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Mounds View
The readers mapped around Mounds View break down as 8 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Mounds View Police Department. The first camera here was reported in May 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Mounds View Boulevard — 4 readers
- Silver Lake Road — 1 reader
- West County Road J — 1 reader
- County Road H2 — 1 reader
- West County Road I — 1 reader
- 93rd Lane — 1 reader
- County Road I West — 1 reader
Mounds View MN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Mounds View MN PD runs 10 cameras of its own, has logged 77 plate-database searches, has captured 218,854 vehicle records. Its network connects to 96 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 Park MN PD.
Mounds View in the Ramsey County picture
Ramsey County has 81 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,569 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 544,438 residents and 1,278 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 9.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic, 2 public. Operators named on the record: Mounds View Police Department (1).
Camera activity around Mounds View, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Mounds View. Latest change logged Aug 31, 2026.
What’s watching Mounds View
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 Mounds View — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Mounds View (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Mounds View
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 Mounds View
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).