Flock & ALPR Cameras in Robbinsdale, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers in and around Robbinsdale — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 11 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Robbinsdale, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Robbinsdale itself.
The rest sit in Minneapolis (5), Brooklyn Center (4), Crystal (1).
4 of them name an operator in the record: Minneapolis Police Department (3), Hennepin County Sheriff's Office (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 Robbinsdale in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:18 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Robbinsdale
The readers mapped around Robbinsdale break down as 7 Flock Safety, 3 Insight LPR, 1 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: Minneapolis Police Department, Hennepin County Sheriff's Office. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Dec 2025.
- Twin Lakes Regional Trail — 2 readers
- Bottineau Boulevard — 1 reader
- North Dowling Avenue — 1 reader
- North 44th Avenue — 1 reader
- North Penn Avenue — 1 reader
- North Lowry Avenue — 1 reader
- North Fremont Avenue — 1 reader
- 51st Avenue North — 1 reader
- Brooklyn Boulevard — 1 reader
- West Broadway Avenue — 1 reader
Robbinsdale MN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Robbinsdale MN PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 18 other agencies.
Robbinsdale 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 10 traffic. Operators named on the record: Minneapolis Police Department (3), Hennepin County Sheriff's Office (1).
What’s watching Robbinsdale
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 Robbinsdale — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Robbinsdale (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Robbinsdale
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 Robbinsdale
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).