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Grand Forks County

5 Deployments on record
4 Agencies
3 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 · 2 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

University of North Dakota Police Department

Grand Forks · 2 deployments · on UnGovr: University of North Dakota

Body-worn & dashcam

The University of North Dakota Police Department began using body-worn cameras in 2014.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Prairie Business Magazine

Drones / UAS Vendor: DJI

The University of North Dakota Police Department began using drones in 2012 through the Northeast Region UAS Unit.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): University BusinessUnmanned Aerial Online

Grand Forks County Sheriff's Office

Grand Forks · 1 deployment · on UnGovr: Grand Forks County

Body-worn & dashcam

The Grand Forks County Sheriff's Office has used body-worn cameras since at least 2018.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): AP News

Grand Forks Police Department

Grand Forks · 1 deployment · on UnGovr: City of Grand Forks

Face recognition

The Grand Forks Police Department can run face recognition requests through the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation's face recognition system. The agency submitted 13 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

Grand Forks Sheriff's Office

Grand Forks · 1 deployment · on UnGovr: City of Grand Forks

Drones / UAS Vendor: Draganfly Innovations

The Grand Forks Sheriff's Office's Department operates five Draganfly Innovations drones as of 2011, 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.uasvision.com

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