Boulder County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Boulder 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
Lafayette Police Department
As of April 2024, the Lafayette Police Department operates 30 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
The Lafayette Police Department acquired Axon body-worn cameras in 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Boulder Daily Camera
Louisville Police Department
As of April 2024, the Louisville 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
The Louisville Police Department received a $25,695 grant in 2021 from the Colorado Department of Public Safety Division of Criminal Justice for its body-worn camera program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Colorado Department of Public Safety Division of Criminal JusticKDVR
Boulder Police Department
The Boulder Police Department has operated drones since 2017 and as of 2024 operated 17 different kinds.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of BoulderCenter for the Study of the Drone at Bard Collegewww.faa.gov
The Boulder Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Flock Safety
The Boulder Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of Boulder
20th Judicial District Attrorney's Office
The 20th Judicial District Attrorney's Office has access to Lumen face recognition software through its membership in the Colorado Information Sharing Consortium.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Colorado Information Sharing Consortium.
Boulder County Sheriff's Office
The Boulder County Sheriff's Office uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Flock Safety
Longmont Police Department
The Longmont Police Department operates four drones 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.denverpost.com
The Longmont Police Department purchased 162 Axon body-worn camerasfor officers in 2019, plus an additional 17 spare cameras. .
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Longmont LeaderThe Denver Post
The Longmont Police Department received funding from the Colorado Auto Theft Prevention Authority (CAPTA) to purchase automate license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): ACLU
University of Colorado Boulder Police Department
The University of Colorado Boulder Police Department began using Axon body-worn cameras in 2019.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CU Boulders websiteDenver PostJustDial
University of Colorado, Boulder Police Department
The University of Colorado, Boulder Police Department office uses automated license plate readers for parking enforcement.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CU Boulder
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026