County record · North Dakota

Ward County

4 Deployments on record

3 Agencies

2 Technology categories

Technology presence

ALPR · none on record Fixed cameras & RTCC · none on record Face recognition · 2 Drones / UAS · none on record 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

Minot Police Department

Minot · 2 deployments · on UnGovr: City of Minot

Body-worn & dashcam Vendor: Axon

The Minot Police Department started using Axon body-worn cameras in 2016.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Minot Daily News

Face recognition

The Minot Police Department can run face recognition requests through the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation's face recognition system. The agency submitted 10 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

Ward County Narcotics Task Force

Minot · 1 deployment

Face recognition

The Ward County Narcotics Task Force can run face recognition requests through the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation's face recognition system. The agency submitted four 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

Ward County Sheriff's Department

Minot · 1 deployment · on UnGovr: Ward County

Body-worn & dashcam

The Ward County Sheriff's Department obtained body-worn cameras in 2018.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KXNET

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