Verified ALPR — vendor unconfirmed
Rochester is watched — we just can't confirm by whom.
Our records document automated license plate reader use in Rochester, Minnesota recorded for Olmsted County Sheriff's Office and Rochester Police Department, but they do not establish Flock Safety as the vendor. Separately, 5 individual ALPR camera locations mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors fall inside the municipal boundary, 3 of them source-tagged Flock Safety.
Agency
Olmsted County Sheriff's Office
Agency type
Sheriff
Jurisdiction
County
County
Olmsted County
State
Minnesota (MN)
Vendor
No verified record currently in our database
The Olmsted County Sheriff's Office disclosed to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension that it uses automated license plate readers.
Sources · record AOS004542
Agency
Rochester Police Department
Agency type
Police
Jurisdiction
Municipal
County
Olmsted County
State
Minnesota (MN)
Vendor
No verified record currently in our database
The Rochester Police Department disclosed to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension that it uses automated license plate readers. The City of Rochester's Parking Division implemented automated license plate readers in 2016.
Sources · record AOS004546
These entries document that an agency has been reported to use ALPR technology. They do not establish camera counts, exact locations, cost, retention periods or sharing policies unless the linked source says so.
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Everything on this page traces back to the records below. Where a record carries no linked document, we say so instead of filling the gap.
Deployment records come from the EFF Atlas of Surveillance ↗. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
5 mapped camera points inside the Rochester boundary, from OpenStreetMap contributors via the DeFlock ↗ dataset (ODbL). Each point links to its own OpenStreetMap record in the camera list on this page.
Camera points are matched to this municipality by point-in-polygon containment against US Census Bureau cartographic boundaries (2023) — the coordinate falls inside the municipal boundary. Containment is a statement about location only, never about ownership, operation, purchase or deployment.
Other Minnesota communities with a record in our database — nearest by county first. Absence from this list is not evidence of absence.
Several Minneapolis-area suburbs adopted rules barring immigration-related searches of their Flock license plate data, the Star Tribune reported.
Star TribuneJul 31, 2026News reportingFlock Safety
Star Tribune reporting describes immigration-related searches run against Twin Cities-area Flock camera data during a federal enforcement surge.
Star TribuneJul 20, 2026News reportingFlock Safety
Camera counts, contract prices, retention and sharing policies are shown only where we found a primary source. Where they're missing, the information is not publicly verified — see the Flock Files for the documents we do have.
Data attribution
Portions of the surveillance deployment data on this site come from the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Atlas of Surveillance. atlasofsurveillance.org ↗ Are You Flocked? is independent and is not affiliated with the EFF or Flock Safety. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
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