Arapahoe County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Arapahoe 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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Aurora Police Department
The Aurora Police Department operates a Drone as First Responder program using Flock Safety drones.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): 9 NewsAurora Police DepartmentAurora Police Department
The Aurora Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers. In 2020, the police chief apologized to a family who had been improperly detained due to an ALPR-related error.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CBS Colorado9news9 News
The Aurora Police Department uses Clearview AI face recognition software.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Westwood
The Aurora Police Department uses Clearview AI face recognition technology.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): 9 News
The Aurora 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 Aurora Police Department purchased 800 Axonbody-worn cameras in 2021. In 2016, the agency purchased 427 VieVu body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): United States Department of JusticeCision PR NewswireFox Denver
The Aurora Police Department launched their real-time crime center in 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of Aurora
Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office
The Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CBS News
The Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office operates a drone-as-first-responder program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KUSAArapahoe County Sheriff's OfficeCBS News Colorado
The Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office received a $283,095 grant in 2021 from the Colorado Department of Public Safety Division of Criminal Justice to buy 234 body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Colorado Department of Public Safety Division of Criminal JusticKDVR
The Araphoe County Sheriff's Office uses face recognition technology.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Arapahoe County SheriffArapahoe County Sheriff
Greenwood Village Police Department
The Greenwood Village Police Department operates a Drone as First Responder (DFR) program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Scripps NewsCenter for the Study of the Drone at Bard Collegewww.faa.gov
The Greenwood Village 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 Greenwood Village Police Department received funding from the Colorado Auto Theft Prevention Authority (CAPTA) to purchase automate license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Colorado Auto Theft Prevention Authority
Littleton Police Department
The Littleton Police Department uses automated license plate readers, according to a 2022 reprt.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CBS Colorado
The Littleton 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 Littleton Police Department received a $114,795 grant in 2021 from the Colorado Department of Public Safety Division of Criminal Justice to buy 81 body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Colorado Department of Public Safety Division of Criminal JusticKDVR
18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office
The 18th 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
Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office
The Arapahoe 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
Cherry Hills Village Police Department
The Cherry Hills Village 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 Cherry Hills Village Police Department received a $50,995 grant in 2021 from the Colorado Department of Public Safety Division of Criminal Justice to buy 23 body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Colorado Department of Public Safety Division of Criminal JusticKDVR
The Cherry Hills Village Police Department operates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCH
Columbine Valley Police Department
The Columbine Valley 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 city of Bow Mar installed Flock Safety automated license plate readers at each end of town in 2020. Bow Mar contracts with the Columbine Valley Police Department for police services.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CBS Denver
Sheridan Police Department
The Sheridan 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 Sheridan Police Department acquired Axon body-worn cameras at the end of 2015.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Littleton IndependentSheridan NewsSheridan Police Facebook
Glendale Police Department
The Glendale 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
City of Centennial
Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.
Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory
City of Englewood
Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.
Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory
Town of Bow Mar
Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.
Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory
Sources: FBI Crime Data Explorer · EFF Atlas of Surveillance