Flock & ALPR Cameras in West Saint Paul, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around West Saint Paul — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 12 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 12 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 12 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in West Saint Paul
The readers mapped around West Saint Paul break down as 2 Flock Safety, 1 Axis Communications. Every report here dates to Aug 2026.
- Butler Avenue East — 1 reader
- Livingston Avenue — 1 reader
- Stryker Avenue — 1 reader
West Saint Paul MN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, West Saint Paul MN PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 27 other agencies.
West 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 3 traffic.
Camera activity around West Saint Paul, last 30 days
3 newly reported, 8 removed in our hourly change log for West Saint Paul. Latest change logged Aug 30, 2026.
What’s watching West 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 West Saint Paul — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to West Saint Paul (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around West Saint Paul
- 3 new license plate readers reported around West Saint Paul, MN
- 8 license plate readers reported removed near West Saint Paul, MN
- On the agenda: West Saint Paul meeting — ALPR (Jan 26)
What you can do in West 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.
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Cameras near West Saint Paul
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).