Tulare County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Tulare 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
Dinuba Police Department
The Dinuba Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Flock Safety
Porterville Police Department
The Porterville Police Department received approval to install six additional Flock Safety automated license plate readers in 2024, bringing the total to 12 cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Porterville Police DepartmentPorterville City Council
The Porterville Police Department uses Axon body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Porterville Recorder Online
College of the Sequoias Police Department
As of April 2024, the College of the Sequoias Police Department operates 20 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
Tulare Police Department
The Tulare Police Department operates automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Tulare Police DepartmentABC 30 FresnoVisalia Stringer Instagram
Tulare County Sheriff's Department
The Tulare County Sheriff's Office installed automated license plate readers in 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Fresnoland
The Tulare County Sheriff's Office operated 10 DJI drones as of 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Tulare County Sheriff’s OfficeCenter for the Study of the Drone at Bard Collegewww.visaliatimesdelta.com
The Tulare County budgeted $119,700 for BriefCam software in 2019.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): BuzzfeedCounty Budget
The Tulare County Sheriff's Office received approval for a $1.5 million, five-year agreement with Axon for body-worn cameras, storage, and accessories in 2017. In 2016, the U.S. Department of Justice awarded $97,432 to the Tulare County Sheriff's Office as part of the Bureau of Justice Assistance's body-worn camera grant program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Tulare County Sheriff’s OfficeVisalia Times DeltaU.S Department of Justice
Woodlake Police Department
The Woodlake Police Department operates automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Sun-Gazette Journal
Visalia Police Department
The Visalia Police Department began using automated license plate readers in 2022
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Visalia Police DepartmentMuckrock
The Visalia Police Department received a $153,000 matching grant from the U.S. Department of Justice in 2017 to purchase body-worn cameras. The initial program covered 119 uniformed officers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Visalia Times DeltaABC 30
Tule River Tribal Police Department
The Tule River Tribal Police Department uses Axon body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Tule River Tribal Police Department Facebook page
Farmersville Police Department
The Farmersville Police Department has been using Axon body-worn cameras since 2015.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Sun Gazette
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026