Woodbury County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Woodbury County.
Technology presence
What these categories mean
- ALPR
- Automated license plate readers (ALPR): camera systems that automatically capture, read, and log vehicle license plates with location and time, producing a searchable record of vehicle movements.
- Fixed cameras & RTCC
- Agency-operated fixed video cameras and the real-time crime centers (RTCC) that aggregate live and recorded feeds for monitoring. Extends the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Atlas, which enumerates real-time crime centers and camera registries but not standalone fixed-camera estates.
- Face recognition
- Software that matches faces in images or video against a reference database to identify or verify individuals.
- Drones / UAS
- Uncrewed aerial systems (UAS), commonly called drones, operated by an agency for overhead observation, imaging, or sensing.
- Gunshot detection
- Networks of acoustic sensors that detect and locate suspected gunfire and alert an agency.
- Body-worn & dashcam
- Officer body-worn and in-vehicle dashboard cameras that record encounters; public access to the footage is frequently restricted.
- Doorbell & camera registry
- Programs that give an agency access to privately owned camera footage: doorbell-camera partnerships, citizen camera registries, and private-camera integration platforms.
- Cell-site simulators
- Devices that mimic cell towers to locate or identify nearby mobile phones. They are often called Stingrays, or IMSI catchers after the international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) number that identifies each phone on a network. Adjacent: communications surveillance outside the visual/sensor core.
- Predictive policing
- Software that forecasts where crime may occur or who may be involved, to direct policing. Adjacent: analytics rather than a sensing deployment.
- Social-media monitoring
- Tools that collect and analyze public social-media activity for an agency. Adjacent: open-source/communications monitoring outside the visual/sensor core.
The record, by agency
South Sioux City Police Department
The Sioux City Police Department uses body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): News stationSioux City Police DepartmentSouth Sioux City Police Department Facebook
Woodbury County Sheriff's Office
The Woodbury County Sheriff's Office operates seven Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Siouxland Proud
The Woodbury County Sheriff's Office operates one drone, according to data compiled by the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard Collegektiv.com
Sioux City Police Department
The Sioux City Police Department purchased.seven automated license plate reader for the city. Seven ALPRs are for Woodbury County while five ALPRs are for the Tri-State Drug Task Force.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): News Press NowSiouxland Proud
The Sioux City Police Department operates one drone, according to data compiled by the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard Collegesiouxlandnews.comwww.faa.gov
Tri-State Drug Task Force
The Tri-State Drug Task Force operates five Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): News Press Now
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026