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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Shoreview, Minnesota

Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Shoreview — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 9 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Shoreview, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Shoreview itself.

The rest sit in North Oaks (8), Arden Hills (1).

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

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9
Reported cameras nearby
#57
of 198 Minnesota cities tracked
0.5%
of Minnesota’s reported cameras
Live camera map 9 reported cameras around Shoreview, 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 Shoreview

No new reports near Shoreview in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:20 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Shoreview

The readers mapped around Shoreview break down as 9 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.

  • Pleasant Lake Road — 2 readers
  • Wildflower Way — 2 readers
  • Maycomb Lane — 2 readers
  • Cunningham Road — 2 readers
  • Ben Franklin Street — 1 reader

Shoreview 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 5 traffic.

Camera activity around Shoreview, last 30 days

1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Shoreview. Latest change logged Aug 18, 2026.

What’s watching Shoreview

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

What you can do in Shoreview

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 Shoreview

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