Flock & ALPR Cameras in Saint Cloud, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 16 automated license plate readers in and around Saint Cloud — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 16 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Saint Cloud, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 14 of them sit inside Saint Cloud itself.
The rest sit in Haven Township (2).
10 of them name an operator in the record: Saint Cloud Police Department (10). 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 Saint Cloud in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 13:24 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Saint Cloud
The readers mapped around Saint Cloud break down as 10 Flock Safety, 5 Axon Enterprise, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Saint Cloud Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- University Drive South — 5 readers
- University Drive Southeast — 2 readers
- Granite City Crossing — 2 readers
- Lincoln Avenue Southeast — 1 reader
- 5th Avenue South — 1 reader
- County Road 8 Southeast — 1 reader
- 1st Street North — 1 reader
- US 10 — 1 reader
- 8th Avenue South — 1 reader
- East Lake Boulevard — 1 reader
Saint Cloud in the Stearns County picture
Stearns County has 16 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,769 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 159,358 residents and 3,254 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 61% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 11 traffic. Operators named on the record: Saint Cloud Police Department (10).
Camera activity around Saint Cloud, last 30 days
4 newly reported in our hourly change log for Saint Cloud. Latest change logged Aug 29, 2026.
What’s watching Saint Cloud
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 Saint Cloud — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Saint Cloud (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Saint Cloud
What you can do in Saint Cloud
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 Saint Cloud
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).