Earlier this month, the Morton County Sheriff’s Department briefed the public via Facebook on the scope of law enforcement presence that was helping confront protesters of the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock.

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The help was made possible by a bill signed into law by President Bill Clinton about 20 years ago, which created an interstate agreement for emergency management. The agreement helped bring law enforcement agents to North Dakota to the site of protests by the Standing Rock Sioux against the Dakota Access Pipeline. The protests at Standing Rock, and the Black Lives Matter protests in Baltimore after the death of Freddie Gray, represent some of the only times the compact has been invoked outside of a natural disaster.

The ACLU assembled the names of law enforcement agencies below from the Morton County Sheriff’s Department and from media accounts. The Morton County Sheriff’s Department confirmed the cities and counties in North Dakota that sent officers as well as the 10 states that contributed, and where there was a news story about a particular force, we included a hyperlink. Where there was mention of the number of officers deployed, we noted that as a minimum — though more may have been deployed later.

North Dakota:



24. Dunn County 25. Emmons County 26. McKenzie County 27. McLean County 28. Mercer County Sheriff’s Department 29. Morton County 30. Stark County 31. Stutsman County 32. Ward County 33. Williams County Sheriff’s Department 34. Grand Forks County 35. Divide County 36. Kidder County 37. Grant County 38. Bowman County 39. Benson County 40. Burke County



41. McIntosh County 42. Barnes County 43. Bottineau County 44. Logan County 45. Trail County



Louisiana:

46. St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Department

Montana:

47. Montana Highway Patrol (at least 10 officers)

Wisconsin:

48. Wisconsin State Patrol (at least 17 officers)

49. Dane County Sheriff’s Department (at least 10 officers)

50. Dane County Special Events Team (at least 3 supervisors)

51. St. Croix County Sheriff’s Department (at least 4 officers)

52. Rock County Sheriff’s Department (at least 5 officers)

53. Marathon County Sheriff’s Department (at least 4 officers)

Minnesota:

54. Hennepin County Sheriff's Department (at least 29 personnel)

55. Anoka County Sheriff's Department (at least 6 personnel)

56. Washington County Sheriff's Department (at least 5 personnel)

South Dakota:

57. South Dakota Highway Patrol



58. Pennington County Sheriff's Department (12 officers)



59. South Dakota Department of Criminal Investigation (3 agents)

Wyoming:

60. Wyoming Highway Patrol (at least 6 officers)

61. Laramie County Sheriff's Department

Nebraska:

62. Nebraska State Patrol (at least 11 officers)

Indiana:

63. Lake County Sheriff’s Department

64. Schererville Police Department

65. Hammond Police Department

66. Griffith Police Department

67. Michigan City Police Department

68. Munster Police Department

69. Indiana Department of Natural Resources

70. Marion County Sheriff’s Department

71. Brookville Police Department

72. Porter County

73. LaPorte County

74. Jasper County

75. Newton County

Ohio:

76. Ohio State Highway Patrol (at least 37 officers)