Flock & ALPR Cameras in West Fargo, North Dakota
Volunteers have reported 76 automated license plate readers in and around West Fargo — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 78 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of West Fargo, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 56 of them sit inside West Fargo itself.
The rest sit in Fargo (19), Harwood (2), Mapleton (1).
15 of them name an operator in the record: West Fargo Police Department (15). 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 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 Fargo
The readers mapped around West Fargo break down as 76 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: West Fargo Police Department. The first camera here was reported in May 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Sheyenne Street — 11 readers
- 9th Street East — 5 readers
- 13th Avenue East — 4 readers
- 32nd Avenue East — 4 readers
- 23rd Avenue South — 3 readers
- Veterans Boulevard — 3 readers
- 45th Street South — 3 readers
- 17th Street East — 3 readers
- 7th Avenue East — 3 readers
- 19th Avenue East — 3 readers
- 17th Avenue East — 3 readers
- Fargo — 3 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around West Fargo — all on the live map above.
West Fargo ND PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, West Fargo ND PD runs 47 cameras of its own. Its network connects to 22 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
West 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 75 traffic. Operators named on the record: West Fargo Police Department (15).
Camera activity around West Fargo, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for West Fargo. Latest change logged Aug 15, 2026.
What’s watching West 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 West Fargo — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to West Fargo (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around West Fargo
- Where are the Flock cameras? Fargo and West Fargo police won't say
- West Fargo residents share Flock camera, budget concerns at commission meeting
- West Fargo commissioners hear public input on 2027 budget
- Fargo, West Fargo spent over $230K on Flock cameras last year
What you can do in West 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 West Fargo
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).