Flock & ALPR Cameras in Princeton, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Princeton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 2 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Princeton, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Princeton itself.
The rest sit in Baldwin (1).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Mille Lacs County Sheriff's Office (1), Princeton Police Department (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 Princeton in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:00 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Princeton
The readers mapped around Princeton break down as 2 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Mille Lacs County Sheriff's Office, Princeton Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Feb 2026.
- US Highway 169 — 2 readers
Princeton in the Mille Lacs County picture
Mille Lacs County has 6 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,294 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 26,912 residents and 1,283 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 62% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic. Operators named on the record: Mille Lacs County Sheriff's Office (1), Princeton Police Department (1).
Camera activity around Princeton, last 30 days
2 removed in our hourly change log for Princeton. Latest change logged Sep 11, 2026.
What’s watching Princeton
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 Princeton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Princeton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Princeton
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 Princeton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).