Flock & ALPR Cameras in North Saint Paul, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 22 automated license plate readers in and around North Saint Paul — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 22 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of North Saint Paul, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside North Saint Paul itself.
The rest sit in Maplewood (11), Oakdale (8), White Bear Lake (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: The Home Depot (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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- Sep 24 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 24 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 15 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in North Saint Paul
The readers mapped around North Saint Paul break down as 15 Flock Safety, 3 Axis Communications, 1 Neology, Inc.. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- White Bear Avenue — 3 readers
- 56th Street North — 2 readers
- Hill Drive — 2 readers
- I 694 — 2 readers
- 11th Avenue — 2 readers
- White Bear Avenue North — 2 readers
- Frost Avenue — 1 reader
- Anchor Drive — 1 reader
- 40th Street North — 1 reader
- 34th Street North — 1 reader
- Castle Avenue East — 1 reader
- North McKnight Road — 1 reader
North Saint Paul 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 18 traffic. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (1).
Camera activity around North Saint Paul, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for North Saint Paul. Latest change logged Aug 19, 2026.
What’s watching North Saint Paul
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 North Saint Paul — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to North Saint Paul (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around North Saint Paul
- 2 new license plate readers reported around North Saint Paul, MN
- 2 new license plate readers reported around North Saint Paul, MN
- 3 new license plate readers reported around North Saint Paul, MN
- 2 new license plate readers reported around North Saint Paul, MN
What you can do in North Saint Paul
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 North Saint Paul
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).