Flock & ALPR Cameras in Paynesville, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Paynesville — 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 Paynesville, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Paynesville itself.
The rest sit in Roseville Township (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Paynesville in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:05 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Paynesville
The readers mapped around Paynesville break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Jun 2026.
- MN 23 — 1 reader
Paynesville in the Stearns County picture
Stearns County has 16 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,769 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 159,358 residents and 3,254 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 61% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic.
What’s watching Paynesville
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 Paynesville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Paynesville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Paynesville
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 Paynesville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).