Fresno County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Fresno 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
Fresno County Sheriff's Office
The Fresno County Sheriff's Office received a $430,000 US Bureau of Justice Assistance grant in 2022 to acquire 225 body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Bureau of Justice Assistance, US Department of Justice
The Fresno County Sheriff's Office operates automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Fresno County SheriffCalifornia State Auditor
Fresno Police Department
The Fresno Police Department operated 39 DJI drones as of 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of FresnoCenter for the Study of the Drone at Bard Collegewww.yourcentralvalley.com
The Fresno Police Department opened its real-time crime center in 2015, but shut it for two years in 2019 due to staffing shortages. It reopened in 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Bureau Of Justice AssistanceFresno BeeABC 30
The Fresno City Council signed a $80,000 contract with PredPol (now Geolitica) for predictive policing software in 2016.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Fresno LegistarPredictive Policing report
The Fresno Police Department purchased 400 body-worn cameras for $2.6 million as part of a five-year contract. The agency has used BWCs since 2015.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Your Central ValleyU.S Department of Justice
The Fresno Police Department has used ShotSpotter gunshot detection software since 2015.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Fresno BeeABC 30GV Wire
The Fresno Police Department operates automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Your Central ValleyCalifornia State Auditor
California State University, Fresno University Police Department
California State University, Fresno Police Department has utilized body-worn cameras since at least 2019.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CSU Fresno University PolicyCalifornia State University Chancellor's Report
Clovis Police Department
The Clovis Police Department collected more than 12,000,000 vehicle scans in 2022 using automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Clovis Police DepartmentCalifornia State Auditor
The Clovis Police Department operates a Drone as First Responder (DFR) program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Clovis Police DepartmentCity of ClovisCity of Clovis
According to reporting from The Markup, the Clovis Police Department used PredPol (now Geolitica) between 5/1/18 and 4/30/19.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Markup
Coalinga Police Department
The Coalinga Police Department received funding from California's Organized Retail Theft Prevention Grant Program in 2023 36 video surveillance cameras, including nine cameras with automated license plate recognition.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): California Board of State and Community CorrectionsCalifornia Board of State and Community Corrections
The Coalinga Police Department began using body-worn cameras in 2017.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): YourCentralValley.comBureau of Justice Assistance
Reedley Police Department
The Reedley Police Department operates 20 Flock Safety automated license plate readers and other cameras as of June 2025. The agency stores ALPR data for 30 days.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Flock Safety
The Reedley Police Department received $40,000 from the Bureau of Justice Assistance to purchase 20 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 list
Orange Cove Police Department
The Orange Cover Police Department uses Axon body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Orange Cove Police department manual.Orange Cove Police Department Facebook page
Parlier Police Department
The Parlier Police Department received $40,000 from the Bureau of Justice Assistance to purchase 20 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 list
Sanger Police Department
The Sanger Police Department uses Axon body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Sanger Police DepartmentSanger Police Department Facebook
Selma Police Department
The Selma Police Department operated three DJI drones as of 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of SelmaCenter for the Study of the Drone at Bard Collegehanfordsentinel.com
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026