Burleigh County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Burleigh 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
Burleigh County Sheriff's Department
The Burleigh County Sheriff's Department can run face recognition requests through the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation's face recognition system. The agency submitted five requests through the Bureau of Criminal Investigation's face recognition system between March 2023 to October 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Bureau Of Criminal Investigation Division of North Dakota
Burleigh County State's Attorney's Office
The Burleigh County State's Attorney's Office can run face recognition requests through the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation's face recognition system. The agency submitted two requests through the Bureau of Criminal Investigation's face recognition system between March 2023 to October 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Bureau Of Criminal Investigation Division of North Dakota
Bismarck Police Department
The Bismarck Police Department can run face recognition requests through the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation's face recognition system. The agency submitted 38 requests through the Bureau of Criminal Investigation's face recognition system between March 2023 to October 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Bureau Of Criminal Investigation Division of North Dakota
The Bismarck City Commission approved a contract with Axon in February 2023 to equip police with 136 body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Bismark Tribune
Lincoln Police Department
The Lincoln Police Department can run face recognition requests through the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation's face recognition system. The agency submitted three requests through the Bureau of Criminal Investigation's face recognition system between March 2023 to October 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Bureau Of Criminal Investigation Division of North Dakota
The Lincoln Police Department began using body-worn cameras in early 2020.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Bismark TribuneBismarck Tribune
North Dakota Highway Patrol
The North Dakota Highway Patrol can run face recognition requests through the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation's face recognition system. The agency submitted eight requests through the Bureau of Criminal Investigation's face recognition system between March 2023 to October 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Bureau Of Criminal Investigation Division of North Dakota
The North Dakota Highway Patrol uses body-worn cameras, according to a February 2023 report.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Bismark Tribune
Metro Area Narcotics Task Force
The Metro Area Narcotics Task Force can run face recognition requests through the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation's face recognition system. The agency submitted three requests through the Bureau of Criminal Investigation's face recognition system between March 2023 to October 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Bureau Of Criminal Investigation Division of North Dakota
North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation
The North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation can run face recognition requests through the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation's face recognition system. The agency submitted seven requests through the Bureau of Criminal Investigation's face recognition system between March 2023 to October 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Bureau Of Criminal Investigation Division of North Dakota
North Dakota Department of Transportation
North Dakota’s Department of Transportation uses face recogntion and shares access to its photo repository with the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation, which is the single access point for all requests from law enforcement.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Electronic Frontier FoundationGovernment Accountability Office
Burleigh County Sheriff's Office
The Burleigh County Sheriff's Office operates five DJI drones as of 2016, 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 Collegebismarcktribune.comwww.grandforksherald.com
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026