Flock & ALPR Cameras in Oakdale, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 13 automated license plate readers in and around Oakdale — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 13 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Oakdale, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 6 of them sit inside Oakdale itself.
The rest sit in Woodbury (6), Lake Elmo (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 5 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Oct 5 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 8 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Oakdale
The readers mapped around Oakdale break down as 5 Flock Safety, 5 Axis Communications, 1 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- 10th Street North — 2 readers
- I 94 — 2 readers
- Woodbury Lakes Road — 1 reader
- Hallmark Ave North — 1 reader
- 21st Street North — 1 reader
- 15th Street North — 1 reader
- I 694 — 1 reader
- I 494 — 1 reader
- 3rd Street North — 1 reader
Oakdale in the Washington County picture
Washington County has 126 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #603 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 272,298 residents and 2,131 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 10.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 10 traffic.
Camera activity around Oakdale, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Oakdale. Latest change logged Sep 8, 2026.
What’s watching Oakdale
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 Oakdale — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Oakdale (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Oakdale
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Oakdale, MN
- 6 new license plate readers reported around Oakdale, MN
- On the agenda: Oakdale meeting — license plate reader (May 12)
What you can do in Oakdale
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.
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Cameras near Oakdale
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).