County record · Minnesota
Cottonwood County
2
Deployments on record
2
Agencies
2
Technology categories
Technology presence
ALPR · none on record
Fixed cameras & RTCC · none on record
Face recognition · none on record
Drones / UAS · 1
Gunshot detection · none on record
Body-worn & dashcam · 1
Doorbell & camera registry · none on record
Cell-site simulators · none on record
Predictive policing · none on record
Social-media monitoring · none on record
The record, by agency
Cottonwood County Sheriff's Office
Body-worn & dashcam
Vendor: Motorola Solutions
The Cottonwood County Sheriff's Office uses Motorola body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Cottonwood County Sheriff's OfficeWindom News
Windom Police Department
Drones / UAS
Vendor: DJI
The Windom Police Department spent $9,000 on drones in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Minnesota Department of Public SafetyWindom NewsCenter for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026