Minnesota Mass Surveillance: Live ALPR Updates

Fridley PD changed one license plate reader location on its state roster entry

One of Fridley PD's six listed license plate reader locations on the Minnesota BCA roster changed: - Was: 5600 block of East River Road NE - Now: 5800 block of East River Road NE The other five locations are unchanged. The roster does not say whether the camera was moved or the address was corrected. Source: Minnesota BCA, "Agencies that use License Plate Readers (LPR)": https://dps.mn.gov/divisions/bca/data-and-reports/agencies-use-lprs-lpr

University of Minnesota PD now reports 14 withheld license plate reader locations, up from 10

On the Minnesota BCA's public list of agencies that report using automated license plate readers (Minn. Stat. 13.824), the entry for University of Minnesota Police - Twin Cities changed between Sept. 25 and Sept. 29, 2026. The fixed or stationary device field previously read "Locations (10) withheld by the police department under Minnesota Statute 13.824, Subdivision 8 (b)" and now reads "Locations (14) withheld…". The locations themselves are not published, so the state roster does not say where the additional four devices are. The BCA roster is vendor-neutral, covering every ALPR vendor, so the count is not confirmed to be Flock cameras and may not match the Flock portal's camera count. Source: Minnesota BCA, "Agencies that use License Plate Readers (LPR)." Confirmed on the live page Sept. 29, 2026.

Itasca County Sheriff's Office stopped disclosing any license plate reader locations on the state roster

The agency's MN BCA license-plate-reader roster entry previously listed 19 specific fixed/stationary device locations around Grand Rapids and the rest of Itasca County (e.g. Scenic Highway at County Road 8 northbound in Bovey, Great River Road at County Line northbound in Grand Rapids, State Highway 65 at U.S. Highway 2 in Swan River, Route 169 in Taconite, and 15 others). As of this update the roster shows "N/A" for that field — the agency is still listed on the roster, but no longer discloses any fixed-location detail. The BCA roster covers every ALPR vendor, not just Flock; Itasca County Sheriff's Office's ALPR vendor is unconfirmed, so this should not be read as evidence of Flock use specifically. Itasca has also recently disappeared from the outbound sharing lists published by two Flock-portal agencies (Paul Bunyan Task Force, Spring Lake Park PD), which may reflect the same underlying change.

St. Louis Park PD's disclosed license plate reader locations grew from 8 to 13 on the state roster

The agency's MN BCA license-plate-reader roster entry for fixed/stationary device locations was substantially rewritten. Previous list (8 named intersections, one with 2 devices): Louisiana Avenue at Wayzata Boulevard; 16th Street West at Park Place Boulevard; Park Place Boulevard at Interstate 394 (2 devices); 16th Street West at Gamble Drive; Parkdale Drive at Park Place Boulevard; Excelsior Boulevard at France Avenue South; State Highway 7 at Lynn Avenue South; 8332 State Highway 7. Current list (13 named intersections, three with 2 devices): Park Place Boulevard and 16th Street West; Park Place Boulevard and Gamble Drive (2 devices); 16th Street West and Gamble Drive; 3015 Raleigh Avenue South; 8124 State Highway 7 (2 devices); State Highway 7 and Aquila Avenue South; 8458 State Highway 7; 37th Street West and Aquila Avenue South; 36th Street and Boone Avenue South (2 devices); Louisiana Avenue South and 14th Street West; Wayzata Boulevard and Kentucky Avenue South; Park Place Boulevard and Wayzata Boulevard; Park Place Boulevard and Cedar Lake Road. Some entries appear to be the same intersections restated in different word order; others (3015 Raleigh Avenue South, 8124/8458 State Highway 7, 37th Street West and Aquila Avenue South, 36th Street and Boone Avenue South, Wayzata Boulevard and Kentucky Avenue South, Park Place Boulevard and Cedar Lake Road) are newly disclosed, while several previous locations (Excelsior Boulevard at France Avenue South, State Highway 7 at Lynn Avenue South, 8332 State Highway 7, Parkdale Drive at Park Place Boulevard) no longer appear. St. Louis Park PD's separately-tracked Flock transparency portal is unaffected by this roster-only change and remains Active.

St. Paul PD announced it will remove its two city-owned Flock cameras

After a City Council meeting on Wednesday, August 26, 2026, Mayor Kaohly Her and the police chief announced that the city's two city-owned Flock cameras would be taken down. KSTP reports the council voted unanimously on a resolution. Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher said the county's 10 cameras in St. Paul will stay, because the resolution does not require his office to remove them. The articles published August 26-27 do not give a removal date for the two city cameras. Sources: KSTP (kstp.com, Aug 26, 2026); CBS Minnesota (cbsnews.com/minnesota, Aug 27, 2026).

Flock pitched Minneapolis PD: 1,100+ devices and 110+ customers already in Minnesota

Three days after a Friday call, Flock's Huston Cambron emailed MPD Commander Reisdorfer with a follow-up pitch. The offer: in-car LPR through Flock's Getac partnership, fixed and Flock Flex cameras to supplement the Insight LPR units MPD already runs, and platform access to search and share with Flock customers in and outside Minnesota. The numbers Flock put on its own footprint: 1,100+ devices across 110+ Minnesota customers, most of them law enforcement. It also named 19 metro agencies already on the network, including Hennepin County, St. Paul, the University of Minnesota, Edina, Plymouth, Woodbury, Eagan, and Blaine, "and many more." A pitch is not a purchase. The email itself shows MPD was running Insight LPR, not Flock, at the time.