Goodhue County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Goodhue 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
Goodhue County Sheriff's Office
The Goodhue County Sheriff's Office spent $8,000 on drones in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Minnesota Department of Public SafetyMinnesota Bureau of Criminal ApprehensionCenter for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Red Wing Police Department
The Red Wing Police Department uses Axon Body 4 body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Red Wing Police Department Faacebook PageRed Wing Police DepartmentCity of Red Wing
Prairie Island Indian Community Tribal Police Department
The Prairie Island Indian Community Tribal Police Department has 10 WatchGuard body-worn cameras, according to a 2023 audit.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Prairie Island Tribal Police DepartmentRampart Audit LLCPrairie Island Tribal Police DepartmentRampart Audit LLC
Cannon Falls Police Department
The Cannon Falls Police Department has eight WatchGuard body-worn cameras, according to a 2023 audit.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of Cannon Falls - Cannon Falls Police DepartmentLynn Lembcke ConsultingCity of Cannon Falls - Cannon Falls Police DepartmentOn-Site Computers, Inc.City of Cannon FallsMinn. Legislature - Legislative Commission on Data PracticesOn-Site Computers, Inc.
Goodhue Police Department
The Goodhue Police Department has four Axon body-worn cameras, according to a 2023 audit.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of Goodhue - Goodhue Police DepartmentLynn Lembcke Consulting
Kenyon Police Department
The Kenyon Police Department has an unmanned aerial vehicle program, according to a 2021 report from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026