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.
2025 UAV (Drone) Program Annual Disclosure
Per the Minnesota BCA's statutorily required legislative report, the White Bear Lake Police Department (ORI MN0621000) reported 85 warrantless UAV/drone deployments in 2025 at a total program cost of $7,800.00 -- the highest deployment count among Washington County's reporting agencies despite a mid-range cost. Of the 85, 40 occurred Jan-Jun 2025 (16 emergency/life-safety, 2 public-event safety, 2 crash reconstruction, 1 reasonable-suspicion information collection, 19 training/public relations) and 45 occurred Jul-Dec 2025 (17 emergency/life-safety, 3 terrorist-threat-related, 2 crash reconstruction, 15 reasonable-suspicion information collection, 8 other).
View policy documentStatewide report downloaded and read directly; this agency's rows located in the by-agency cost/count table and both reason-code tables, cross-checked that the half-year counts sum to the reported total (40+45=85). Only the 2025 report was checked.
Last checked 2026-09-20
Automated License Plate Readers (ALPR)(Policy 423)
White Bear Lake Police Department Lexipol policy governing capture, storage, and use of ALPR data: restricted to official law enforcement use, data limited to plate numbers/date-time-location/images, BCA notified within 10 days of installation, non-investigative data destroyed within 60 days (with exculpatory-evidence exception), biennial audits, public list of fixed ALPR locations maintained, written-request procedure for releasing data to other agencies. Cites Minn. Stat. §626.8472 and §13.824.
View policy documentThe department's own live site (whitebearlakemn.gov) is Cloudflare-blocked in this environment; the full 513-page, 7.8MB policy manual PDF was located via its Policy Manual index page (fetched through a reader-proxy workaround since direct WebFetch/curl to the index page itself was also blocked) and then downloaded directly and successfully in full (direct curl to this specific file host was NOT blocked, unlike the main whitebearlakemn.gov domain -- confirmed by HTTP 200, full 7.8MB, no truncation). Read Policy 423's full text (pages 257-260 of the PDF) directly with pypdf, quoted above. Checked all 49 currently-collected White Bear Lake Meeting records (2020-01 through 2022-08, the only window collected so far) for any ALPR/LPR/Flock item -- none have any agenda_outline text extracted yet at all (a separate, pre-existing coverage gap for this government, not specific to this policy), so this 'no vote found' finding is weaker than for other governments with fuller agenda coverage -- flagging that caveat explicitly rather than overstating confidence.
Last checked 2026-09-20