Flock & ALPR Cameras in Richfield, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 34 automated license plate readers in and around Richfield — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 33 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Richfield, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 19 of them sit inside Richfield itself.
The rest sit in Bloomington (9), Minneapolis (3), Fort Snelling Unorganized Territory (2).
5 of them name an operator in the record: Great Wolf Lodge (2), Airport Police Department (1), Flock Safety (1), Richfield, MN PD (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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- Sep 24 License plate reader newly reported
- Sep 12 Axis Communications camera newly reported
- Sep 12 Axis Communications camera newly reported
- Sep 12 Axis Communications camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Richfield
The readers mapped around Richfield break down as 26 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Great Wolf Lodge, Richfield, MN PD, Flock Safety, Airport Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- American Boulevard East — 4 readers
- Portland Avenue South — 2 readers
- Nicollet Avenue South — 2 readers
- Lyndale Avenue South — 2 readers
- North Garden — 2 readers
- East 63rd Street — 2 readers
- West 66th Street — 2 readers
- East 66th Street — 1 reader
- East 77th Street — 1 reader
- Penn Avenue South — 1 reader
- Queen Ave South — 1 reader
- IKEA Way — 1 reader
+ 7 more streets and roads mapped around Richfield — all on the live map above.
Richfield MN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Richfield MN PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 1 other agencies.
Richfield 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 26 traffic. Operators named on the record: Great Wolf Lodge (2), Richfield, MN PD (1), Flock Safety (1).
Camera activity around Richfield, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Richfield. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Richfield
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 Richfield — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Richfield (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Richfield
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Richfield, MN
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Richfield, MN
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Richfield, MN
- New chapter on the network: DeFlock Richfield (Richfield, Minnesota)
What you can do in Richfield
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 Richfield
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).