Clay County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Clay 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
Liberty Police Department
The Liberty Police Department operates 10 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The Liberty Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The City of Liberty
Pleasant Valley Police Department
The Pleasant Valley Police Department operates three Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Kearney Police Department
The Kearney Police Department has a 14-camera system with some still being installed. The city paid about $4,900 for initial equipment and installation and pays roughly $35,000 per year for maintenance and Flock’s storage of data.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Courier Trtibune
The Kearney Police Department received a Small, Rural, and Tribal Body-Worn Camera Program grant for $3,655 for 5 body-worn cameras in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Justice & Security StrategiesJustice & Security Strategies
Excelsior Springs Police Department
The Excelsior Springs Police Department received $54,000 in funding for Flock Safety automated license plate readers in late 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Excelsior Citizen
Clay County Sheriff's Office
The Clay County Sheriff's Office signed a five-year, $1.3 million contract with Flock Safety for 95 automated license plate readers in October 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Clay News and Views
The Clay County Sheriff's Office purchased a Brinc drone in 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Clay County Minutes
Gladstone Police Department
The Gladstone Police Department purchased 12 Flock Safety automated license plate readers in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Gladstone Dispatch
North Kansas City Police Department
The North Kansas City Police Department's SafeCam program is a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): North Kansas City
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026