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Cape Girardeau County

5 Deployments on record
2 Agencies
4 Technology categories

Technology presence

ALPR · 1 Fixed cameras & RTCC · none on record Face recognition · none on record Drones / UAS · 2 Gunshot detection · 1 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

Cape Girardeau Police Department

Cape Girardeau · 4 deployments · on UnGovr: City of Cape Girardeau

ALPR Vendor: Flock Safety

The Cape Girardeau Police Department has used automated license plate readers since 2013. In 2022, the agency began using Flock Safety ALPRs.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Columbia Daily TribuneSoutheast Missourian

Body-worn & dashcam

The U.S. Department of Justice awarded $27,000 to the Cape Girardeau Police Department in 2017 as part of the Bureau of Justice Assistance's body-worn camera grant program.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): U.S Department of Justice

Drones / UAS Vendor: exH2O, DJI

The City of Cape Girardeau Police Department purchased three drones in 2016.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KFVS 12Southeast Missourian

Gunshot detection Vendor: Shotspotter

In January 2022, the Cape Girardeau City Council approved a three-year, $178,200 contract with ShotSpotter.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Southeast MissourIanCape Girardeau City Council

Cape Girardeau County Sheriff's Office

Cape Girardeau · 1 deployment · on UnGovr: Cape Girardeau County

Drones / UAS Vendor: DJI

The Cape Girardeau County Sheriff's Office uses drones.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Cape Girardeau County Sheriff's OfficeCape Girardeau County Sheriff's Office FacebookSikeston Standard-Democrat

Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026