Flock & ALPR Cameras in Waite Park, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers in and around Waite Park — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 11 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Waite Park, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside Waite Park itself.
The rest sit in Saint Cloud (8), Sartell (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Sartell Police Department (1). 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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- Oct 4 Rekor camera newly reported
- Oct 4 Rekor camera newly reported
- Oct 4 Rekor camera newly reported
- Oct 4 Neology, Inc. camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Waite Park
The readers mapped around Waite Park break down as 7 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Sartell Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- 44th Avenue North — 3 readers
- Pine Cone Road South — 1 reader
- 2nd Avenue Northeast — 1 reader
- 2nd Street South — 1 reader
- 3rd Street North — 1 reader
Waite Park 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 parking, 3 traffic. Operators named on the record: Sartell Police Department (1).
Camera activity around Waite Park, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Waite Park. Latest change logged Aug 21, 2026.
What’s watching Waite Park
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 Waite Park — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Waite Park (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Waite Park
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Waite Park, MN
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Waite Park, MN
What you can do in Waite Park
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.
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Cameras near Waite Park
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).