Flock & ALPR Cameras in New Brighton, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around New Brighton — 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 New Brighton, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 8 of them sit inside New Brighton itself.
The rest sit in Fridley (2).
3 of them name an operator in the record: New Brighton Police Department (3). 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 New Brighton in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:21 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in New Brighton
The readers mapped around New Brighton break down as 8 Flock Safety, 3 Neology, Inc.. Named operators in the reports: New Brighton Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Silver Lake Road Northwest — 3 readers
- North Innsbruck Drive — 1 reader
- Old Highway 8 — 1 reader
- I 694 — 1 reader
- Rice Creek Road — 1 reader
- 10th Street Northwest — 1 reader
- West County Road E2 — 1 reader
- Silver Lake Road — 1 reader
- 14th Street Northwest — 1 reader
New Brighton MN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, New Brighton MN PD runs 1 cameras of its own, has logged 40 plate-database searches, has captured 40,751 vehicle records. Its network connects to 320 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Adams County WI SO, Aitkin County MN SO, Albion MI DPS, Alexandria MN PD, Allen County IN SO, AR - Alma PD, Altoona IA PD, Ankeny IA PD.
New Brighton 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 11 traffic. Operators named on the record: New Brighton Police Department (3).
Camera activity around New Brighton, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for New Brighton. Latest change logged Aug 26, 2026.
What’s watching New Brighton
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 New Brighton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to New Brighton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around New Brighton
What you can do in New Brighton
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 New Brighton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).