Shasta County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Shasta 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.
- Fusion & investigative platforms
- Third-party platforms that fuse data across sources, sometimes including other surveillance feeds, for law-enforcement search and analysis, sold or licensed to multiple agencies rather than built by any one of them: examples include Palantir, Peregrine Systems, C3.ai, and SoundThinking's CrimeTracer (formerly Coplink X). Adjacent: an analytics layer that sits above the surveillance feeds this site otherwise tracks, rather than a sensing deployment of its own.
The record, by agency
Redding Police Department
The Redding Police Department operated 11 DJI drones as of 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of ReddingKRCRCenter for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Redding Police Department began using Axon body-worn cameras in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KRCR
The Redding Police Department uses automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Muck Rock
U.S. National Park Service - Lassen Volcanic National Park
Shasta County Sheriff's Department
The Shasta County Sheriff's Office uses automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Shasta County Sheriff's OfficeCalifornia State AuditorShasta County Sheriff
The Shasta County Sheriff's Office maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Shast County Sheriff's Office
Anderson Police Department
The Anderson Police Department operates one Yuneec Typhoon Q500 drone as of 2015, 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.krcrtv.com
Camera counts measured independently of this record
Flock Safety publishes a live camera count on each agency's own transparency portal. One agency has a portal we read directly, with no deployment documented above for that technology. Each count below is measured, dated, and cited to the portal itself, via UnGovr, rather than a claim about what the documented record establishes.
| Agency | Technology | Cameras | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of Anderson | ALPR | 12 | August 2026 | Flock Safety transparency portal |
Sources: Flock Safety transparency portals · EFF Atlas of Surveillance