Flock & ALPR Cameras in Roseville, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 14 automated license plate readers in and around Roseville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Oct 3 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Roseville
The readers mapped around Roseville break down as 9 Flock Safety, 4 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Roseville Police Department, Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- County Road B West — 3 readers
- Rosedale Center Mall — 3 readers
- Skillman Avenue West — 1 reader
- East Snelling Drive North — 1 reader
- Prior Avenue — 1 reader
- West Snelling Drive — 1 reader
- Dale Street North — 1 reader
- Fairview Avenue North — 1 reader
- County Road B2 — 1 reader
Roseville MN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Roseville MN PD runs 8 cameras of its own, has logged 239 plate-database searches, has captured 245,338 vehicle records. Its network connects to 75 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Aitkin County MN SO, Anoka County MN SO, Anoka MN PD, Becker County MN SO, Brooklyn Center MN PD, Brooklyn Park MN PD, Champlin MN PD, Chisago County MN SO.
Roseville in the Ramsey County picture
Ramsey County has 81 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,569 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 544,438 residents and 1,278 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 9.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 9 traffic. Operators named on the record: Roseville Police Department (7), Flock Safety (4).
Camera activity around Roseville, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Roseville. Latest change logged Aug 26, 2026.
What’s watching Roseville
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 Roseville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Roseville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Roseville
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 Roseville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).