Stanislaus County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Stanislaus 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
Ceres Police Department
The Ceres Police Department has used automated license plate readers since 2014.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Ceres Courier
The Ceres Police Department operated nine DJI drones as of 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Ceres Police DepartmentCenter for the Study of the Drone at Bard Collegewww.cerescourier.com
Modesto Police Department
The Modesto Police Department operates automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Modesto Police DepartmentModesto Police Department's Facebook pageModesto Police Linked In
In 2018, Axon supplied 11 drones to the Modesto Police Department.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CBS SacramentoCenter for the Study of the Drone at Bard Collegewww.fool.com
The Modesto Police Department uses video analytics software in its real-time crime center.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Police Chief Magazine
The Modesto Police Department opened its real-time crime center in 2016. The RTCC has access to at least 50 live camera feeds. The RTCC also monitors drone footage and a real-time map of call for service. MPD utilizes automated license plate reader technology and PredPol (now Geolitica) predictive policing software.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Sacramento BeeFacebookTwitter
The Modesto Police Department began using PredPol (now Geolitica) predicitive policing software in January 2014.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KRCA
Oakdale Police Department
Oakdale Police Department uses the Fusus camera registry system.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): 404 Media
The Oakdale Police Department used body-worn cameras as of 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Oakdale Police Department FacebookOakdale Leader
The Oakdale Police Department operates one drone as of 2018, 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.oakdaleleader.com
Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department
The Stanislaus County Sheriff's Office operated 24 drones as of 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Stanislaus CountyCenter for the Study of the Drone at Bard Collegetwitter.com
The Stanislaus County Sheriff's Office collected more than 4,000,000 vehicle scans in 2022 using automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Stanislaus County Sheriff's OfficeCalifornia State Auditor
Stanislaus County Sheriff's Office purchased body-worn cameras for 180 deputies and 30 sergeants in April 2019. The BWCs cost about $70 per officer
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): ABC NewsFacebookModesto Bee
Turlock Police Department
The Turlock Police Department entered an agreement with EPIC iO to install 32 automated license plate readers throughout the city.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Turlock JournalThe Modesto Bee
According to reporting from The Markup, the Turlock Police Department used PredPol (now Geolitica) between 02/22/18 and 05/12/20.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Markup
The Turlock Police Department started a camera registry program in 2018.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Turlock Police Department
Newman Police Department
The Newman Police Department uses Axon body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Newman Police Department FacebookNewman Police Department
Stanislaus State Police Department
Stanislaus State Police Department has been wearing body-worn cameras since at least 2019.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Stanislaus State Police Department FacebookCalifornia State University Chancellor's Report
Riverbank Police Services
The Riverbank Police Services collected more than 17,000,000 vehicle scans in 2022 using automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Riverbank Police ServicesThe Modesto Bee
The Riverbank Police Services uses video analytics in combination with IntelliSite Remote Surveillance Units.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Modesto Bee
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026