Cameras / Minnesota / St. Cloud
License plate readers in St. Cloud, MN
Volunteers have documented 13 automated license plate readers inside St. Cloud. That is the 26th-largest total among the 43 Minnesota cities indexed here, and 0.9% of the statewide total. Its 0.3 readers per square mile spread across 40.2 square miles — thinner coverage than 97% of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged Scheels. Where a mount was recorded, volunteers logged 8 on street lamps and 2 on poles.
Updated August 14, 2026.
13
readers documented
0.3
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 Safety7 · 54%
- Other vendors5 · 38%
- Unknown1 · 8%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 7 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Saint Cloud Police Department (9), Scheels (1). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- street lamp (8), pole (2)
- Coverage area
- 40.2 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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