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 Woodbury Police Department (ORI MN0821100) reported 7 warrantless UAV/drone deployments in 2025 at a total program cost of $2,321.00 -- one of the lowest deployment counts and costs among Washington County's reporting agencies. Of the 7, 4 occurred Jan-Jun 2025 (2 emergency/life-safety, 1 reasonable-suspicion information collection, 1 training/public relations) and 3 occurred Jul-Dec 2025 (all 3 emergency/life-safety).
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 (4+3=7). Only the 2025 report was checked.
Last checked 2026-09-20
Automated License Plate Readers (ALPR)(Policy 425)
Woodbury Police Department administrative policy (Lexipol-licensed, Policy 425) governing capture, storage, retention and release of Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) data, citing Minn. Stat. § 626.8472 and § 13.824. Data not related to an active criminal investigation must be destroyed within 60 days of collection, with exceptions for exculpatory-evidence requests and Address Confidentiality Program participants.
View policy documentWoodbury's live site (woodburymn.gov) returned a Cloudflare challenge page in this environment. Verified instead via the Wayback Machine: the city's /1204/Automated-License-Plate-Readers page (captured 2023-09-21 through 2025-12-23) links to a policy PDF at /DocumentCenter/View/2673. The bare /DocumentCenter/View/2673 URL has no Wayback capture (404), but the full slugged URL /DocumentCenter/View/2673/Automated-License-Plate-Readers- was captured 2025-08-06 and was fetched directly (15KB, 4-page PDF, read in full). The document's own Lexipol footer reads "Copyright Lexipol, LLC 2023/08/22" on every page, which is used here as the policy's effective/publication date. This is the department's own written policy (a separate question from a council vote): a prior agent today searched Woodbury council minutes for Aug-Dec 2022 and found no ALPR mention, and could not read 5 Workshop packets from that window due to a ~1MiB proxy truncation limit; no board/council vote for this specific policy has been found in the records collected so far, so adoption_process reflects that absence of finding rather than a confirmed absence of a vote.
Last checked 2026-09-20