Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sartell, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Sartell — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 3 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Sartell, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside Sartell itself.
The rest sit in Sauk Rapids Township (1).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Sartell Police Department (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 Sartell in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 14:13 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Sartell
The readers mapped around Sartell break down as 2 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Sartell Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Mar 2026.
- 1st Street Northeast — 1 reader
- 19th Avenue South — 1 reader
- Sartell — 1 reader
Sartell MN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Sartell MN PD runs 8 cameras of its own, has logged 13 plate-database searches, has captured 112,871 vehicle records. Its network connects to 6 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Sartell 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 3 traffic. Operators named on the record: Sartell Police Department (2).
Camera activity around Sartell, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Sartell. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Sartell
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 Sartell — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Sartell (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Sartell
- St. Cloud, Sartell Police Explain Flock Safety Cameras, Address ICE Data Concerns
- Sartell's Flock cameras are helping investigators
- Which Sartell intersections will have new police 'Flock' cameras?
- Critics , supporters speak out as Sartell works to install license plate recognition cameras
What you can do in Sartell
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 Sartell
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).