Minnesota · Local Surveillance Report

Flock & ALPR Cameras in Rochester, Minnesota

Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Rochester — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

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Reported cameras nearby

#91

of 198 Minnesota cities tracked

0.2%

of Minnesota’s reported cameras

Live camera map 4 reported cameras around Rochester, 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 Rochester

No new reports near Rochester in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 14:59 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Rochester

The readers mapped around Rochester break down as 3 Flock Safety, 1 Axon Enterprise. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Apr 2026.

Rochester — 3 readers
41st Street Northwest — 1 reader

Rochester in the Olmsted County picture

Olmsted County has 5 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #2,087 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 163,425 residents and 2,058 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 77.1% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic.

Camera activity around Rochester, last 30 days

1 removed in our hourly change log for Rochester. Latest change logged Aug 15, 2026.

What’s watching Rochester

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

What you can do in Rochester

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 Rochester

Chatfield (1) Preston (1) Lake City (4) Wabasha (5)

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