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Are there Flock cameras in Sioux Falls, South Dakota?
Yep. Sioux Falls is flocked.
Are there Flock cameras in Sioux Falls, South Dakota?
Yes. Public records in our database document Flock Safety automated license plate readers in Sioux Falls, South Dakota recorded for Sioux Falls Police Department and Minnehaha County Sheriff's Office. Separately, 44 individual ALPR camera locations mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors fall inside the municipal boundary, 41 of them source-tagged Flock Safety.
- Agencies
- Sioux Falls Police Department and Minnehaha County Sheriff's Office
- Vendor
- Flock Safety
- County
- Minnehaha County
- Records on file
- 2
- Mapped cameras inside boundary
- 44
- Source-tagged Flock Safety
- 41
- Latest cited source
- 6/25/25
- Database last updated
- 2026-08-07
What's on file
Agency
Sioux Falls Police Department
Agency type
Police
Jurisdiction
Municipal
County
Minnehaha County
State
South Dakota (SD)
Vendor
Flock Safety
The Sioux Falls Police Department spent $168,000 for about two dozen Flock Safety license plate reader cameras and the requisite operating system to use them.
Verified deployment detail
No primary sources on file yet
Cameras / readers
Not publicly verified
Contract price
Not publicly verified
Contract start
Not publicly verified
Contract end
Not publicly verified
Data retention
Not publicly verified
Data sharing documented
Not publicly verified
Date approved
Not publicly verified
ALPR policy
Not publicly verified
Contract / public record
Not publicly verified
Flock transparency portal
Not publicly verified
Every value above is transcribed from the linked document. Nothing is estimated or inferred, and claims circulating on social media are never published here. “Not publicly verified” means we have not found a reliable primary or reported source — never that the thing does not exist.
Sources · record AOS015063
- SF Simplified ↗1/10/2025
Agency
Minnehaha County Sheriff's Office
Agency type
Sheriff
Jurisdiction
County
County
Minnehaha County
State
South Dakota (SD)
Vendor
Flock Safety
The Minnehaha County Sheriff's Office uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Verified deployment detail
No primary sources on file yet
Cameras / readers
Not publicly verified
Contract price
Not publicly verified
Contract start
Not publicly verified
Contract end
Not publicly verified
Data retention
Not publicly verified
Data sharing documented
Not publicly verified
Date approved
Not publicly verified
ALPR policy
Not publicly verified
Contract / public record
Not publicly verified
Flock transparency portal
Not publicly verified
Every value above is transcribed from the linked document. Nothing is estimated or inferred, and claims circulating on social media are never published here. “Not publicly verified” means we have not found a reliable primary or reported source — never that the thing does not exist.
Sources · record AOS015696
- The Dakota Scout ↗6/25/25
What this record does not say
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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Sources & records
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.
Documented deployment records
- SF Simplified ↗Sioux Falls Police Department · 1/10/2025 · record AOS015063
- The Dakota Scout ↗Minnehaha County Sheriff's Office · 6/25/25 · record AOS015696
Deployment records come from the EFF Atlas of Surveillance ↗. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
Community-mapped camera locations
44 mapped camera points inside the Sioux Falls 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.
Nearby documented deployments
Other South Dakota communities with a record in our database — nearest by county first. Absence from this list is not evidence of absence.
- AberdeenALPR — vendor unconfirmed
- MadisonVerified Flock
- SummersetVerified Flock
- WatertownVerified Flock
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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