Flock & ALPR Cameras in Rush City, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Rush City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 7 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Rush City, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside Rush City itself.
The rest sit in Rushseba Township (2).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Chisago 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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No new reports near Rush City in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:16 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Rush City
The readers mapped around Rush City break down as 6 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Chisago County Sheriff's Office. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Jan 2026.
- West 4th Street — 1 reader
- County Road 39 — 1 reader
- Rushseba Trail — 1 reader
- South Bremer Avenue — 1 reader
- Rush Point Drive — 1 reader
- South Jay Avenue — 1 reader
- Forest Boulevard — 1 reader
Rush City in the Chisago County picture
Chisago County has 26 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #617 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 57,434 residents and 1,126 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 26.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic. Operators named on the record: Chisago County Sheriff's Office (2).
What’s watching Rush City
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 Rush City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Rush City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Rush City
- Flock camera system a success in Rush City
- Rush City installs 'flock cameras' | Rush City
- Rush City has more discussion regarding flock safety | Rush City
What you can do in Rush City
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 Rush City
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).