Minnehaha County

County record. Includes every city and agency within Minnehaha County.

5 Deployments on record
2 Agencies
3 Technology categories

Technology presence

ALPR · 2 Fixed cameras & RTCC · none on record Face recognition · none on record Drones / UAS · 1 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
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

Minnehaha County Sheriff's Office

Sioux Falls · 2 deployments · last documented Jun 2025 · on UnGovr: Minnehaha County

ALPR Vendor: Flock Safety

The Minnehaha County Sheriff's Office uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Dakota Scout

Body-worn & dashcam Vendor: Axon

The Minnehaha County Sheriff's Office uses body-worn cameras.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Minnehaha County Sheriff's Office Facebook

Sioux Falls Police Department

Sioux Falls · 3 deployments · last documented Apr 2025 · on UnGovr: City of Sioux Falls

Drones / UAS Vendor: DJI

The Sioux Falls Police Department has nine certified unmanned aircraft system pilots and seven drones as of 2024. The agency began its drone program in 2019 and officially implemented drone usage in June 2020.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of Sioux FallsCity of Sioux Falls WebsiteAutomotive Fleet

ALPR Vendor: Flock Safety

The Sioux Falls Police Department spent $168,000 for about two dozen Flock Safety license plate reader cameras and the requisite operating system to use them.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): SF Simplified

Body-worn & dashcam

The Sioux Falls Police Department had 30 body-worn cameras as July 2020, but planned to purchase 150 more to equip the entire police force.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KELO

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