Flock & ALPR Cameras in Osseo, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 17 automated license plate readers in and around Osseo — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 17 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Osseo, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Osseo itself.
The rest sit in Brooklyn Park (9), Maple Grove (4).
3 of them name an operator in the record: The Home Depot (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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- Oct 1 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Osseo
The readers mapped around Osseo break down as 16 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Lakeland Avenue North — 4 readers
- Grove Circle North — 3 readers
- Central Avenue — 3 readers
- 84th Avenue North — 3 readers
- 83rd Avenue North — 1 reader
- 1st Street Northwest — 1 reader
- Rush Creek Regional Trail — 1 reader
Osseo MN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Osseo MN PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 21 other agencies.
Osseo in the Hennepin County picture
Hennepin County has 486 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #776 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,268,903 residents and 3,422 road miles. By road density that is 0.14 cameras per road mile, in the top 2.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 16 traffic. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (3).
Camera activity around Osseo, last 30 days
2 removed in our hourly change log for Osseo. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Osseo
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 Osseo — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Osseo (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Osseo
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 Osseo
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).