Flock & ALPR Cameras in Shorewood, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Shorewood — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Paused
Shorewood is on the record here. Shorewood, MN suspended its Flock Safety cameras covering 1 cameras. Cited reasons: Public backlash / privacy; Audit depth concerns; Exploring contract exit.
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No new reports near Shorewood in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 11, 15:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Shorewood
The readers mapped around Shorewood break down as 1 Flock Safety, 1 Axis Communications. Named operators in the reports: South Lake Minnetonka Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Smithtown Road — 1 reader
- Park Lane — 1 reader
Shorewood in the Hennepin County picture
Hennepin County has 486 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #776 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,268,903 residents and 3,422 road miles. By road density that is 0.14 cameras per road mile, in the top 2.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic. Operators named on the record: South Lake Minnetonka Police Department (1).
What’s watching Shorewood
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 Shorewood — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Shorewood (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Shorewood
- Shorewood , Excelsior consider current Flock safety cameras continuation
- Shorewood, MN: Paused
- In the minutes: Shorewood meeting, Flock camera (Sep 8)
- On the agenda: Shorewood meeting — FLOCK Camera (Aug 25)
What you can do in Shorewood
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 Shorewood
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).