Policies adopted by a government department or agency, shown here alongside how they came to be adopted where that's known. Neutral, factual record only.
Automated License Plate Readers (ALPR)(Policy 435)
Sheriff's Office administrative policy (Lexipol-licensed) governing use of automated license plate reader (ALPR) technology, citing Minn. Stat. §626.8472 and §13.824.
View policy documentPolicy document confirmed by direct fetch (PDF text extraction) on 2026-09-20, effective date 2026-08-31 per its own text. Searched all 163 of 216 currently-collected Washington County Board Meeting agenda records (spanning the archive's coverage to date) for any Flock/ALPR/LPR/license-plate-reader item -- zero matches. Also checked the County Board's own agenda for 2026-09-01 (the date embedded in the policy document's filename) directly -- no ALPR-related item on it either. This reflects what has been searched and found in the collected record so far, not a certainty that no vote ever occurred; last_checked should be revisited if board agenda coverage expands.
Last checked 2026-09-20
2025 UAV (Drone) Program Annual Disclosure
Per the Minnesota BCA's statutorily required legislative report (Minn. Stat. 2020 ch. 82, as amended 2025 ch. 35), the Washington County Sheriff's Office (ORI MN0820000) reported 69 warrantless UAV/drone deployments in 2025 at a total program cost of $25,000.00. Of those, 30 occurred Jan-Jun 2025 under the old reason-code scheme (22 for 'emergency situation involving risk of death or bodily harm,' 3 for crash reconstruction, 5 for a government-entity request) and 39 occurred Jul-Dec 2025 under the new scheme (15 emergency/life-safety, 1 public-event safety, 7 crash reconstruction, 1 training/public relations, 10 reasonable-suspicion information collection, 1 threat assessment, 4 other). Emergency/life-safety situations were the single largest reported use category in both halves of the year.
View policy documentStatewide report downloaded and read directly (24-page PDF, full text extracted); this agency's rows located in the by-agency cost/count table, the Jan-Jun reason-code table, and the Jul-Dec reason-code table, and cross-checked that the two half-year counts sum to the reported annual total (30+39=69) before writing this summary. Only the 2025 report (the most recent) was checked; 2020-2024 reports exist at the same source and are not yet reviewed.
Last checked 2026-09-20