Adams County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Adams 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
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Commerce City Police Department
The Commerce City Police Department operates a real-time crime center.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Commerce City
The Commerce City Police Department operates a Drone as First Responder (DFR) program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): ReasonCommerce City Police DepartmentCenter for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Commerce City Police Department received an enterprise license for LexisNexis' Accurint Virtual Crime Center through its membership in the Colorado Information Sharing Consortium.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Government informationNo Tech for Ice
The Commerce City Police Department received funding from the Colorado Auto Theft Prevention Authority (CAPTA) to purchase automate license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): ACLU
Brighton Police Department
The Brighton Police Department operates nine Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Public Records From the EFF via Pittsboro Police - See note
The Brighton Police Department received an enterprise license for LexisNexis' Accurint Virtual Crime Center through its membership in the Colorado Information Sharing Consortium.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Government informationNo Tech for Ice
Brighton Police Department began implemetation of a body-worn camera program in 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Brighton Standard Blade
The Brighton Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of Brighton
Adams County Sheriff's Office
The Adams County Sheriff's Office operates Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Denver Gazette
Westminster Police Department
The Westminster Police Department has a drone operations team.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Westminster Police Department FacebookWestminster Police Department Facebook
The Westminster Police Department has more than 200 Axon body-worn cameras as of 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of WestminsterCity of Westminster
The Westminster Police Department received an enterprise license for LexisNexis' Accurint Virtual Crime Center through its membership in the Colorado Information Sharing Consortium.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Government informationNo Tech for Ice
The Westminster Police Department began using ELSAG automated license plate readers in 2009. In 2018 and 2019, the U.S. Bureau of Justice Assistance awarded the department funds for its ALPR program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Westminster City Council AgendaU.S. Bureau of Justice AssistanceU.S. Bureau of Justice Assistance
Thornton Police Department
The Thornton Police Department uses drones.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Thornton Police Department InstagramThornton Police Department
The Thornton Police Department received an enterprise license for LexisNexis' Accurint Virtual Crime Center through its membership in the Colorado Information Sharing Consortium.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Government informationNo Tech for Ice
The Thornton Police Department received federal funding for body-worn cameras in 2018 and 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): US Bureau of Justice AssistanceU.S Department of Justicewww.thorntonco.gov
The Thornton Police Department received funding from the Colorado Auto Theft Prevention Authority (CAPTA) to purchase automate license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): ACLU
The Thornton Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of Thornton
University of Colorado, Anschutz Police Department
The University of Colorado, Anschutz Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus
17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office
The 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office received an enterprise license for LexisNexis' Accurint Virtual Crime Center through its membership in the Colorado Information Sharing Consortium.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Government informationNo Tech for Ice
Adams County Sheriff’s Office
The Adams County Sheriff’s Office received an enterprise license for LexisNexis' Accurint Virtual Crime Center through its membership in the Colorado Information Sharing Consortium.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Government informationNo Tech for Ice
Federal Heights Police Department
The Federal Heights Police Department received an enterprise license for LexisNexis' Accurint Virtual Crime Center through its membership in the Colorado Information Sharing Consortium.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Government informationNo Tech for Ice
Northglenn Police Department
The Northglenn Police Department received an enterprise license for LexisNexis' Accurint Virtual Crime Center through its membership in the Colorado Information Sharing Consortium.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Government informationNo Tech for Ice
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance