Wyandotte County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Wyandotte 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
University of Kansas Medical Center Police Department
The University of Kansas Medical Center Police Department operates 11 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Kansas City Police Department
The Kansas City Police Department opened a real-time crime center in December 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City
The Kansas City Police Department received a grant for automated license plate readers in 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Bureau of Justice Assistance, US Department of Justice
The Kansas City Police Department received a fedral grant for gunshot detection technology in 2022
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Bureau of Justice Assistance, US Department of Justice
The Kansas City Police Department operates one DJI Inspire drone as of 2016, 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 Collegefox4kc.com
Kansas City, Kansas Police Department
Kansas City, Kansas Police Department uses the Fusus camera registry system.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): 404 Media
The U.S. Department of Justice awarded $694,500 to the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department from 2015-2017 as part of the Bureau of Justice Assistance's body-worn camera grant program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): U.S Department of JusticeU.S Department of Justice
Bonner Springs Police Department
The Bonner Springs Police Department has been used automated license plate readers since at least 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Bonner Springs
The Bonner Springs Police Department purchased 25 Axon body-worn cameras in 2017.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City Of Bonner SpringsBonner Springs
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026