Flock & ALPR Cameras in Fargo, North Dakota
Volunteers have reported 20 automated license plate readers in and around Fargo — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 11 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Fargo
The readers mapped around Fargo break down as 17 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make, 2 Genetec. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Broadway — 3 readers
- 32nd Avenue — 2 readers
- Main Avenue — 2 readers
- 13th Avenue South — 2 readers
- South University Drive — 2 readers
- 52nd Avenue South — 2 readers
- 17th Avenue South — 1 reader
- 5th Avenue South — 1 reader
- 12th Avenue North — 1 reader
- 38th Street South — 1 reader
- 34th Street South — 1 reader
- 10th Street North — 1 reader
+ 3 more streets and roads mapped around Fargo — all on the live map above.
Fargo ND PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Fargo ND PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 23 other agencies.
Fargo in the Cass County picture
Cass County has 100 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #472 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 22% nationally. That’s across 189,286 residents and 3,382 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 21.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 20 traffic.
Camera activity around Fargo, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Fargo. Latest change logged Sep 11, 2026.
What’s watching Fargo
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 Fargo — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Fargo (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Fargo
- Grandmother falsely accused of bank fraud sues Fargo, North Dakota, over AI facial recognition
- Fargo cops getting more license plate scanners for squad cars | North Dakota News
- Where are the Flock cameras? Fargo and West Fargo police won't say
- West Fargo residents share Flock camera, budget concerns at commission meeting
What you can do in Fargo
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 Fargo
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).