Cape Girardeau County

County record. Includes every city and agency within 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

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

Cape Girardeau Police Department

Cape Girardeau · 4 deployments · last documented Nov 2022 · 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 Tribune Southeast 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 MissourIan Cape Girardeau City Council

Drones / UAS Vendor: exH2O, DJI

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

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KFVS 12 Southeast 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

Cape Girardeau County Sheriff's Office

Cape Girardeau · 1 deployment · last documented Jul 2022 · 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 Office Cape Girardeau County Sheriff's Office Facebook Sikeston 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