License plate readers in Bemidji, MN
Volunteers have documented 13 automated license plate readers inside Bemidji. That is the 26th-largest total among the 43 Minnesota cities indexed here, and 0.9% of the statewide total. Its 0.8 readers per square mile spread across 17.4 square miles — thinner coverage than 83% of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Flock Safety accounts for 85% of them. Every mount volunteers recorded here is the same kind: poles.
Updated August 14, 2026.
13
readers documented
0.8
per square mile
26th
of 43 indexed Minnesota cities
0.9%
of Minnesota’s documented total
Dot colors follow the manufacturer legend below. Boundary: U.S. Census Bureau, 2025 Cartographic Boundary Files. Locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Who makes them
- Flock Safety11 · 85%
- Unknown2 · 15%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 13 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Paul Bunyan Drug Task Force (6), Minnesota State Patrol / Paul Bunyan Tas (5), BSU Department of Public Safety (1). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (12)
- Coverage area
- 17.4 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work · Minnesota ALPR law
These locations were documented in the field by OpenStreetMap volunteers and refresh automatically every six hours. They are evidence of where cameras have been seen — not a complete or official inventory, and cameras may have been added or removed since documentation. Corrections happen upstream: edit OpenStreetMap and this page will update. Read more in our methodology.