- Camera locations disclosed
Ramsey County Sheriff's Office's entry on the Minnesota BCA license plate reader roster now lists two new camera locations in St. Paul: - University Avenue West and Cromwell Avenue - Larpenteur Avenue East and Mississippi Street In the same edit, three North Oaks lines ("Maycomb Road entry (1)", "Maycomb Road (2)" and "Maycomb Road entry (3)") were replaced by a single line, "Maycomb Road in North Oaks." The roster does not say whether that means fewer cameras on Maycomb Road or only a combined listing. Source: Minnesota BCA, "Agencies that use License Plate Readers (LPR)": https://dps.mn.gov/divisions/bca/data-and-reports/agencies-use-lprs-lpr
What does this mean?
The agency's entry on the Minnesota BCA's public roster of license plate reader users now names camera locations it did not list before. Minn. Stat. 13.824 requires agencies to report where their permanently mounted readers are, and the BCA publishes those locations. A newly listed location can mean a new camera went up, or an existing camera was reported for the first time; the roster does not say which. The roster covers every ALPR vendor, not just Flock Safety, so a listing does not by itself show which company's cameras are at a location.