Cameras / Minnesota / Forest Lake
License plate readers in Forest Lake, MN
Volunteers have documented 16 automated license plate readers inside Forest Lake. That is the 20th-largest total among the 43 Minnesota cities indexed here, and 1.1% of the statewide total. Its 0.5 readers per square mile spread across 30.5 square miles — thinner coverage than 92% of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Every one of them is a Flock Safety unit. Volunteers also recorded non-government operators here, including The Home Depot.
Updated August 14, 2026.
16
readers documented
0.5
per square mile
20th
of 43 indexed Minnesota cities
1.1%
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 Safety16 · 100%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 11 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- The Home Depot (2). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (2), traffic signal (1), street lamp (1)
- Coverage area
- 30.5 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work · Minnesota ALPR law
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