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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sandstone, Minnesota

Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Sandstone — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 1 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Sandstone, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Sandstone itself.

The rest sit in Sandstone Township (1).

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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Reported cameras nearby
#178
of 198 Minnesota cities tracked
0.1%
of Minnesota’s reported cameras
Live camera map 1 reported cameras around Sandstone, 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 Sandstone

No new reports near Sandstone in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:52 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Sandstone

The readers mapped around Sandstone break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Feb 2026.

  • CR 61 — 1 reader

Sandstone in the Pine County picture

Pine County has 9 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,004 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 29,411 residents and 2,745 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 70.3% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic.

What’s watching Sandstone

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

The latest around Sandstone

What you can do in Sandstone

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.

Cameras near Sandstone

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