Flock & ALPR Cameras in South Saint Paul, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 17 automated license plate readers in and around South Saint Paul — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 17 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of South Saint Paul, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 9 of them sit inside South Saint Paul itself.
The rest sit in Inver Grove Heights (4), Saint Paul (2), Maplewood (1), West Saint Paul (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 7 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Oct 7 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 26 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in South Saint Paul
The readers mapped around South Saint Paul break down as 12 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Mendota Road East — 4 readers
- Concord Street North — 2 readers
- Concord Street South — 2 readers
- 7th Avenue South — 1 reader
- Southview Boulevard East — 1 reader
- 5th Avenue South — 1 reader
- Maxwell Avenue — 1 reader
- Thompson Avenue — 1 reader
South Saint Paul MN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, South Saint Paul MN PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 26 other agencies.
South Saint Paul in the Dakota County picture
Dakota County has 92 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,353 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 442,204 residents and 2,052 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 13.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 13 traffic.
Camera activity around South Saint Paul, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 7 removed in our hourly change log for South Saint Paul. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching South Saint Paul
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 South Saint Paul — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to South Saint Paul (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around South Saint Paul
- 2 new license plate readers reported around South Saint Paul, MN
- 2 new license plate readers reported around South Saint Paul, MN
- 3 license plate readers reported removed near South Saint Paul, MN
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near South Saint Paul, MN
What you can do in South Saint Paul
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 South Saint Paul
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).