County record · South Dakota

Pennington County

4 Deployments on record

3 Agencies

2 Technology categories

Technology presence

ALPR · none on record Fixed cameras & RTCC · none on record Face recognition · none on record Drones / UAS · 1 Gunshot detection · none on record Body-worn & dashcam · 3 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

Pennington County Sheriff's Office

Rapid City · 2 deployments · on UnGovr: Pennington County

Body-worn & dashcam Vendor: Axon

The Rapid City Police Department and the Pennington County Sheriff’s Office received a $300,000 U.S. Department of Justice matching grant for body-worn cameras in 2017. The agencies implemented Axon body-worn cameras in 2018.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Rapid City SD USA Facebook Rapid City Police Department

Drones / UAS Vendor: DJI

The Pennington County Sheriff's Office operates three DJI drones as of 2019, 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 College www.kotatv.com rapidcityjournal.com

Box Elder Police Department

Box Elder · 1 deployment · on UnGovr: City of Box Elder

Body-worn & dashcam

The Box Elder Police Department received $48,000 from the Bureau of Justice Assistance to purchase 24 body-worn cameras through the 2022 Small, Rural, Tribal BWC Microgrant program.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Small, Rural, and Tribal Body-Worn Camera microgrant grantee list

Rapid City Police Department

Rapid City · 1 deployment · on UnGovr: City of Rapid City

Body-worn & dashcam Vendor: Axon

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Rapid City SD USA U.S Department of Justice Rapid City Police Department

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