Flock & ALPR Cameras in Northfield, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Northfield — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 1 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Northfield, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Northfield itself.
The rest sit in Waterford Township (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Dakota County Sheriff's Office (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 Northfield in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 14:13 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Northfield
The readers mapped around Northfield break down as 1 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Dakota County Sheriff's Office. Every report here dates to Jul 2025.
- Northfield Boulevard — 1 reader
Northfield in the Rice County picture
Rice County has 10 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,570 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 67,389 residents and 1,368 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 51.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic. Operators named on the record: Dakota County Sheriff's Office (1).
What’s watching Northfield
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 Northfield — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Northfield (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Northfield
What you can do in Northfield
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 Northfield
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).