Flock & ALPR Cameras in Wayzata, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers in and around Wayzata — 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 Wayzata, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 9 of them sit inside Wayzata itself.
The rest sit in Plymouth (2).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (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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No new reports near Wayzata in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:22 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Wayzata
The readers mapped around Wayzata break down as 9 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Apr 2026.
- Lake Street East — 3 readers
- Wayzata Boulevard — 2 readers
- Shoreline Drive — 1 reader
- Byrondale Avenue — 1 reader
- Bushaway Road — 1 reader
- Grove Lane East — 1 reader
- Central Avenue North — 1 reader
- 1st Avenue North — 1 reader
Wayzata MN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Wayzata MN PD runs 12 cameras of its own, has logged 25 plate-database searches, has captured 197,391 vehicle records. Its network connects to 87 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Aitkin County MN SO, Alexandria MN PD, Anoka County MN SO, Anoka MN PD, Becker County MN SO, Belle Plaine MN PD, Blaine MN PD, Brooklyn Center MN PD.
Wayzata 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 10 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (1).
What’s watching Wayzata
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 Wayzata — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Wayzata (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Wayzata
- In the minutes: Wayzata City Council Meeting, Flock camera (Oct 6)
- On the agenda: Wayzata City Council Workshop — Flock Camera (Sep 15)
What you can do in Wayzata
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 Wayzata
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).