WatchWatch · United States · Montana · Lewis and Clark

County record · Montana

Lewis and Clark County

3 Deployments on record
3 Agencies
2 Technology categories

Technology presence

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

Helena Police Department

Helena · 1 deployment · on UnGovr: City of Helena

Drones / UAS

The Helena Police Department uses drones as of December 2022.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KTVH

Montana Highway Patrol

Helena · 1 deployment

Drones / UAS Vendor: DJI

The Montana Highway Patrol 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.ktvq.com

Montana Motor Vehicle Division

Helena · 1 deployment

Face recognition

Montana’s Motor Vehicle Division uses face recognition, but as recently as 2017 did not allow state, local or federal law enforcement to access its face recognition database.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Electronic Frontier Foundation

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