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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Otsego, Minnesota

Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Otsego — 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 Otsego, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Otsego itself.

The rest sit in Big Lake Township (1).

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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Reported cameras nearby
#152
of 198 Minnesota cities tracked
0.1%
of Minnesota’s reported cameras
Live camera map 1 reported cameras around Otsego, Minnesota
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Otsego

No new reports near Otsego in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 20:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Otsego

The readers mapped around Otsego break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Dec 2025.

  • US 10 — 1 reader

Otsego in the Wright County picture

Wright County has 10 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,897 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 145,270 residents and 1,940 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 59.5% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic.

What’s watching Otsego

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 Otsego — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Otsego (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Otsego

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.

Cameras near Otsego

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).