Jackson County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Jackson 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
Grandview Police Department
The Grandview Police Department operates 17 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Oak Grove Police Department
The Oak Grove Police Department operates six Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Raytown Police Department
The Raytown Police Department operates nine Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Lee's Summit Police Department
The Lee's Summit Police Department has 55 Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Flock Safety
The Lee's Summit Police Department operates one DJI Phantom drone as of 2018, according to data compiled by the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard Collegewww.kshb.com
The U.S. Department of Justice awarded $254,455 to the Lee's Summit Police Department in 2019 as part of the Bureau of Justice Assistance's body-worn camera grant program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): U.S Department of Justice
Platte County Sheriff's Office
The Platte County Sheriff's Office uses Motorola body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Platte County Sheriff's Office's Facebook PagePlatte County CitizenKansas City Star
Greenwood Police Department
Greenwood Police Department received $10,800 to purchase 12 body-worn cameras through the Small, Rural and Tribal Body-Worn Camera program in 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): SRT BWC Program
Kansas City Police Department
The Kansas City Police Department began using ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology in 2012.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Northeast NewsKCUR
The Kansas City Police Department started using predictive policing software in 2015.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KSHBThe New York Times
The Kansas City Missouri Police Department operates six DJI drones as of 2015, according to data compiled by the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard Collegewww.kshb.compolicefoundationkc.org
The Kansas City Police Department acquired cell-site simulator technology in 2011, according data compiled by Kevin Collier for Vocativ.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): VocativKevin Collierwww.documentcloud.org
The Kansas City Police Department scanned 147,195,687 license plates in 2019 using Vigilant Solutions automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): MuckRock
The Kansas City Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Kansas City Police Departmnet
Blue Springs Police Department
The Blue Springs Police Department installed 24 Flock Safety automated license plate readers in February 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of Blue Springs
The Blue Springs Police Department operates two DJI drones as of 2019, according to data compiled by the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard Collegewww.bluespringsgov.comwww.dartdrones.com
The Blue Springs Police Department has a voluntary camera registration program called "Blue Springs Watch."
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The City of Blue Spring Missouri
Independence Police Department
Independence Police Department began the process of acquiring ShotSpotter in 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of Independence
The Independence Police Department operates two DJI drones, according to data compiled by the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard Collegewww.kmbc.com
Jackson County Sheriff's Office
The Jackson County Sheriff's Office operates one DJI Inspire drone as of 2017, according to data compiled by the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard Collegeregistry.faa.gov
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026