Denver County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Denver 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
Colorado Parks And Wildlife
The Colorado Parks And Wildlife operates two Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Denver Police Department
The Denver Police Department operates a Drone as First Responder (DFR) program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Denver Post
The Denver Police Department opened its Real Time Crime Information Center in August 2019. The RTCC also has access to the city's ShotSpotter system as well as the HALO system, which has 800 cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): 9NewsDowntown Denver PartnershipDenver Police Department
The Denver Police Department installed 6 automated license plate readers in 2015.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Denver PostThe Denver ChannelCBS News
The Denver Police Department finalized its body-worn camera policy in 2015. That same year, DPD requested $6.1 million to implement a five-year program with Axon.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Denver Police DepartmentCPR NewsDenver Police Department
Colorado State Patrol
The Colorado State Patrol uses Axon body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Western Slope NowColorado State Patrol
Auraria Campus Police Department
The Auraria Campus Police Department received a $60,895 grant in 2021 from the Colorado Department of Public Safety Division of Criminal Justice to buy 32 body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Colorado Department of Public Safety Division of Criminal JusticKDVR
The Denver Police Department uses ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology, and in January 2022 entered into a $4.7 million contract to extend the contract through 2026.
The Denver Police Department uses ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Denver GovernmentThe Gazette
Denver Regional Transportation District - Transit Police
The Denver Regional Transportation District Transit Police implemented NiceVision video analytic technology into their computer systems in 2012. In a 2019 job posting, they ask applicants to be familiar with BriefCam Video Synopsis and Qognify systems.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Government JobsASMAG
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026