Flock & ALPR Cameras in Willmar, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Willmar — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Willmar, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 7 of them sit inside Willmar itself.
The rest sit in Pennock (1).
5 of them name an operator in the record: City of Willmar - Police (5). 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 Willmar in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 12:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Willmar
The readers mapped around Willmar break down as 8 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: City of Willmar - Police. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- 1st Street South — 2 readers
- Lakeland Drive Southeast — 1 reader
- Business 71-23 — 1 reader
- Litchfield Avenue Southeast — 1 reader
- 30th Street Northwest — 1 reader
- Willmar Avenue Southeast — 1 reader
- Pacific Avenue Southwest — 1 reader
Willmar MN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Willmar MN PD runs 14 cameras of its own, has logged 106 plate-database searches, has captured 69,499 vehicle records. Its network connects to 36 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Willmar in the Kandiyohi County picture
Kandiyohi County has 10 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,270 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 43,757 residents and 2,000 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 60.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic. Operators named on the record: City of Willmar - Police (5).
What’s watching Willmar
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 Willmar — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Willmar (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Willmar
- Willmar police chief glad Flock Cameras still available for investigations
- Willmar Police Chief Mike Holme gives update on Rau Park shooting investigation
- Vote to turn-off Flock cameras in Willmar fails
- Willmar mayor breaks tie, votes against ending Flock camera contract
What you can do in Willmar
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 Willmar
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).