Kings County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Kings 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
Kings County District Attorney's Office
The Kings County District Attorney's Office operates six 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
King County District Attorney's Office
As of April 2024, the King County District Attorney's Office operates six Flock Safety automated license plate readers. The agency stores ALPR data for 30 days.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Flock SafetyThe News & ObserverThe News & Observer
Hanford Police Department
The Hanford Police Department began installing Flock Safety automated license plate readers in 2022, with the goal of operating 25 cameras by the end of 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Sentinel
The Hanford Police Department operated two DJI drones as of 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of HanfordCenter for the Study of the Drone at Bard Collegehanfordsentinel.com
Kings County Sheriff's Department
The Kings County Sheriff's Office received a $413,000 Bureau of Justice Assistance grant in 2022, to purchase 60-70 body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): US Bureau of Justice Assistance
The Kings County Sheriff's Office eight DJI drones as of 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Kings County Sheriff's OfficeCenter for the Study of the Drone at Bard Collegewww.countyofkings.com
Avenal Police Department
The Avenal Police Department operated drones as of 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Avenal Police DepartmentCenter for the Study of the Drone at Bard Collegewww.cityofavenal.com
Lemoore Police Department
The Lemoore Police Department began using body-worn cameras in 2015.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The LeaderThe Hanford Sentinel
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026