Flock & ALPR Cameras in Brandon, South Dakota
Volunteers have reported 21 automated license plate readers in and around Brandon — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 21 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Brandon, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 10 of them sit inside Brandon itself.
The rest sit in Sioux Falls (7), Beaver Creek Township (1), Brandon Township (1), Red Rock Township (1), Split Rock Township (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 2 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Oct 2 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Oct 2 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Oct 2 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Brandon
The readers mapped around Brandon break down as 13 Flock Safety, 2 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- East Rice Street — 3 readers
- East I-90 — 2 readers
- SD Highway 42 — 1 reader
- 482nd Avenue — 1 reader
- North Heritage Road — 1 reader
- Purple Heart Memorial Highway — 1 reader
- I 90 — 1 reader
- West Park Street — 1 reader
- South McHardy Road — 1 reader
- North Veterans Parkway — 1 reader
- East Holly Boulevard — 1 reader
- West Holly Boulevard — 1 reader
Brandon in the Minnehaha County picture
Minnehaha County has 44 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,310 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 200,689 residents and 1,533 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 22.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 14 traffic.
Camera activity around Brandon, last 30 days
6 newly reported in our hourly change log for Brandon. Latest change logged Aug 31, 2026.
What’s watching Brandon
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 Brandon — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Brandon (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Brandon
- 5 new license plate readers reported around Brandon, SD
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Brandon, SD
- 4 license plate readers reported removed near Brandon, SD
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Brandon, SD
What you can do in Brandon
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 Brandon
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).