Flock & ALPR Cameras in Rosemount, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Rosemount — 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 Rosemount, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Rosemount itself.
The rest sit in Coates (1), Empire (1).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Dakota County Sheriff's Office (2). 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 Genetec camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Rosemount
The readers mapped around Rosemount break down as 2 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Dakota County Sheriff's Office. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Dec 2025.
- Brandel Drive — 2 readers
Rosemount in the Dakota County picture
Dakota County has 92 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,353 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 442,204 residents and 2,052 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 13.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic. Operators named on the record: Dakota County Sheriff's Office (2).
What’s watching Rosemount
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 Rosemount — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Rosemount (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Rosemount
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 Rosemount
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).