Yavapai County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Yavapai County.
Technology presence
What these categories mean
- ALPR
- Automated license plate readers (ALPR): camera systems that automatically capture, read, and log vehicle license plates with location and time, producing a searchable record of vehicle movements.
- Fixed cameras & RTCC
- Agency-operated fixed video cameras and the real-time crime centers (RTCC) that aggregate live and recorded feeds for monitoring. Extends the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Atlas, which enumerates real-time crime centers and camera registries but not standalone fixed-camera estates.
- Face recognition
- Software that matches faces in images or video against a reference database to identify or verify individuals.
- Drones / UAS
- Uncrewed aerial systems (UAS), commonly called drones, operated by an agency for overhead observation, imaging, or sensing.
- Gunshot detection
- Networks of acoustic sensors that detect and locate suspected gunfire and alert an agency.
- Body-worn & dashcam
- Officer body-worn and in-vehicle dashboard cameras that record encounters; public access to the footage is frequently restricted.
- Doorbell & camera registry
- Programs that give an agency access to privately owned camera footage: doorbell-camera partnerships, citizen camera registries, and private-camera integration platforms.
- Cell-site simulators
- Devices that mimic cell towers to locate or identify nearby mobile phones. They are often called Stingrays, or IMSI catchers after the international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) number that identifies each phone on a network. Adjacent: communications surveillance outside the visual/sensor core.
- Predictive policing
- Software that forecasts where crime may occur or who may be involved, to direct policing. Adjacent: analytics rather than a sensing deployment.
- Social-media monitoring
- Tools that collect and analyze public social-media activity for an agency. Adjacent: open-source/communications monitoring outside the visual/sensor core.
The record, by agency
Prescott Police Department
The Prescott Police Department operates 18 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Prescott Valley Police Department
The Prescott Valley Police Department has 99 Flock Safety automated license plate readers and other cameras as of July 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Flock Safety
The Prescott Valley Police Department received approval to enter a 10-year contract with Axon for 87 body-worn cameras in August 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Signals
Cottonwood Police Department
The Cottonwood Police Department uses body-worn cameras. The Cottonwood Police Department also received a Small, Rural, and Tribal Body-Worn Camera Program grant for $29,000.00 for 40 body-worn cameras in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): ABC 15Justice & Security StrategiesJustice & Security Strategies
Yavapai-Apache Nation Tribal Police Department
The Yavapai-Apache Nation Tribal Police Department received $4,576 from the Bureau of Justice Assistance to purchase 8 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 listJustice and Security Strategies
Yavapai County Sheriff's Office
The Yavapai County Sheriff's Office uses Axon body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): ABC 15AxonBoard of Directors of the Yavapai County Jail District
The Yavapai County Sheriff's Office operates one drone 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 Collegewww.faa.gov
Camp Verde Marshal’s Office
The Camp Verde Marshal’s Office uses body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): ABC 15
Chino Valley Police Department
The Chino Valley Police Department uses body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): ABC 15
Clarkdale Police Department
The Clarkdale Police Department uses body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): ABC 15
Jerome Police Department
The Jerome Police Department uses body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): ABC 15
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026