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Blaine PD dropped a fixed ALPR location from its state roster entry

Blaine PD's entry on the Minnesota BCA roster of agencies using license plate readers no longer lists the fixed location "Flanders Street NE north of 101st Avenue NE." All other listed Blaine locations are unchanged. The roster does not say whether the device was removed or relocated. Source: MN DPS/BCA, Agencies that use License Plate Readers (LPR) — https://dps.mn.gov/divisions/bca/data-and-reports/agencies-use-lprs-lpr (change detected 2026-09-23; confirmed on the live page 2026-09-24).

Ramsey County Sheriff's Office added two St. Paul fixed ALPR locations to its state roster entry

The sheriff's office's entry on the Minnesota BCA roster of agencies using license plate readers now lists two new fixed locations in St. Paul: University Avenue West and Cromwell Avenue, and 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 reflects fewer devices on Maycomb Road or only a consolidated listing. The BCA roster covers every ALPR vendor; the sheriff's office's vendor is not confirmed as Flock. Source: MN DPS/BCA, Agencies that use License Plate Readers (LPR) — https://dps.mn.gov/divisions/bca/data-and-reports/agencies-use-lprs-lpr (change detected 2026-09-23; confirmed on the live page 2026-09-24).

St. Louis County Sheriff's Office cut its disclosed fixed ALPR locations from ten to four

The sheriff's office's entry on the Minnesota BCA roster of agencies using license plate readers now lists four fixed or stationary locations, down from ten. Still listed: County Road 7 northbound at County Road 101; County Road 4 northbound at County Road 16; County Road 7 southbound at County Road 133; County Road 77 northbound at Lost Lake Road. No longer listed: Midway Road northbound at Seville Road; Lavaque Road southbound at Martin Road; Rice Lake Road northbound at Martin Road; County Road 21 southbound at Wahlsten Road; U.S. Highway 53 southbound at Minnesota Trunk Highway 194; "U.S. Highway 5 southbound at Hobson Lake Road" (as written by the BCA). The roster does not say whether those six devices were taken down or moved, or whether the listing was only edited. The BCA roster covers every ALPR vendor; the sheriff's office's vendor is not confirmed as Flock. Source: MN DPS/BCA, Agencies that use License Plate Readers (LPR) — https://dps.mn.gov/divisions/bca/data-and-reports/agencies-use-lprs-lpr (change detected 2026-09-23; confirmed on the live page 2026-09-24).

Maplewood PD added two fixed license plate reader locations to its state roster entry

Maplewood PD's entry on the Minnesota BCA roster of agencies that use license plate readers (Minn. Stat. 13.824) went from 17 disclosed fixed or stationary device locations to 19. The change was detected 2026-09-22; the previous snapshot with 17 locations was taken 2026-09-21. Confirmed against the live BCA page on Sept. 22. New locations: • White Bear Avenue North at County Road D East (southbound) • Larpenteur Avenue East at Century Avenue (westbound) The existing 17 locations are unchanged. The "other LPR-capable devices" field still reads N/A. The BCA roster is vendor-neutral and covers every ALPR vendor. Maplewood's own Sept. 2026 statement identified its equipment as Flock Safety and said the cameras were installed but not active at that time; whether that status has changed is not established by this roster edit. No Maplewood Flock transparency portal has been found as of this entry. Source: https://dps.mn.gov/divisions/bca/data-and-reports/agencies-use-lprs-lpr

Wayzata PD revised its disclosed fixed-camera locations on the state LPR roster

The Wayzata Police Department's entry on the Minnesota BCA license plate reader roster (Minn. Stat. 13.824) changed between Sept. 17 and Sept. 21, 2026. The list of fixed or stationary device locations went from 10 entries to 11, with one new site (Wayzata Boulevard at North Brown Road, eastbound, in Long Lake), several direction descriptors changed or dropped, and the list reordered. Confirmed against the live BCA page on Sept. 22. Previous (10): Central Avenue North at Highway 12, southbound; Wayzata Boulevard at Gleason Lake Road, westbound; Lake Street East at Edgewood Court, eastbound; Shoreline Drive at Peavey Road, eastbound; Wayzata Boulevard West at Myrtlewood Road, eastbound; Wayzata Boulevard West at Gleason Lake Road, eastbound; Bushaway Road at McGinty Road West, northbound; Grove Lane at Lake Street East, southbound; Lake Street East at Broadway Avenue, westbound; Wayzata Boulevard at Old Long Lake Road, westbound. Current (11): Central Avenue North at State Highway 12, eastbound; Lake Street East at Edgewood Court, eastbound; Lake Street at Grove Lane, eastbound; Shoreline Drive at Peavey Road, eastbound; Lake Street East at Broadway Avenue; Bushaway Road at McGinty Road West; Wayzata Boulevard at Gleason Lake Road, westbound; Wayzata Boulevard at Gleason Lake Road, eastbound; Wayzata Boulevard at Old Long Lake Road; Wayzata Boulevard at Myrtlewood Road, eastbound; Wayzata Boulevard at North Brown Road, eastbound (in Long Lake). The "other LPR-capable devices" field remains N/A. Wayzata PD's Flock transparency portal separately reports 11 LPR and other cameras.

Medina PD revised its disclosed fixed ALPR locations from six to four

Medina PD's entry on the Minnesota BCA roster of agencies that use license plate readers (published under Minn. Stat. 13.824) changed its list of fixed or stationary device locations. The list went from six locations to four. Removed (4): Northridge Drive and County Road 24; Northridge Drive and Hunter Drive; Deer Hill Road and Homestead Trail; 2800 block of Deer Hill Road. Added (2): State Highway 55 and County Road 19; State Highway 55 and Clydesdale Trail. Unchanged (2): County Road 101 and Highway 55; County Road 19 and County Road 11. The "other surveillance devices with LPR capability" field remains N/A. Medina PD stays on the roster. Detected by a Distill monitor between the BCA page snapshots of 2026-09-11 and 2026-09-17 and confirmed against the live BCA page on 2026-09-17. The BCA roster is vendor-neutral and does not itself identify the vendor; Medina PD's Flock transparency portal is tracked separately.

Woodbury PD's BCA-disclosed fixed ALPR location list grew by three

On the state BCA's ALPR roster, Woodbury PD's disclosed fixed-device location list was updated: a garbled, duplicated entry ("Weir Drive at Tamarack Road southbound / Weir Drive at Valley Creek Road / Weir Drive at Tamarack Road") was cleaned up to a single "Weir Drive at Valley Creek Road" entry, and three new fixed locations were added — Bielenberg Drive at Stephens Way, Bielenberg Drive at Tamarack Road, and Tamarack Road at Interstate 494. Woodbury remains on the roster throughout (no add/remove). Note: the BCA roster is vendor-neutral, but Woodbury's own transparency portal (linked from its city ALPR page) confirms Flock as the vendor.

Crow Wing County SO stopped disclosing its fixed ALPR locations on the state roster

On the Minnesota BCA's state roster of agencies that use license plate readers, the Crow Wing County Sheriff's Office replaced its published list of fixed ALPR locations with the statement: "Locations (4) withheld by the sheriff's office under Minnesota Statute 13.824, Subdivision 8 (b)." The ten locations the office had previously published were: State Highway 371 and Oak Drive South in Fort Ripley; State Highway 371 and Ariell Drive in Brainerd; County Road 3 and County Road 49 in Brainerd; County Road 11 and Knotty Pine Road in Pequot Lakes; State Highway 371 and 3rd Street in Jenkins; State Highway 6 and Dahler Avenue in Emily; County Road 12 and County Road 8 in Deerwood; State Highway 169 and County Road 138 in Garrison; 26975 County Road 2 in Garrison; and 35507 County Road 3 in Cross Lake. The new entry cites four withheld locations against ten previously disclosed. Whether the office removed six cameras or is simply reporting differently is not established by the roster. The agency remains on the roster. The BCA roster is vendor-neutral and covers every ALPR vendor — Crow Wing County's ALPR vendor is not confirmed as Flock. Source: https://dps.mn.gov/divisions/bca/data-and-reports/agencies-use-lprs-lpr (live page confirmed 2026-09-03).

Hennepin County Sheriff's Office dropped a fixed ALPR location from the state roster

The office's entry on the BCA license plate reader roster now lists a single fixed device location, Penn Avenue at 40th Street in Minneapolis, down from two. Fremont Avenue N. at Dowling Avenue N. in Minneapolis was removed. The state roster is vendor-neutral and covers every ALPR vendor, not only Flock.

St. Paul PD stopped disclosing any fixed ALPR locations on the state roster

St. Paul PD's BCA roster entry for locations of fixed or stationary automated license plate readers now reads "N/A." It previously listed "Kellogg Boulevard at Smith Avenue North (2)." The right-hand column, covering other surveillance devices with LPR capability, still reads "N/A." The state roster is vendor-neutral and covers every ALPR vendor, not only Flock.