El Paso County
County record. Includes every city and agency within El Paso 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
Fountain Police Department
The Fountain Police Department operates 24 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The Fountain Police Department received a $30,095 grant in 2021 from the Colorado Department of Public Safety Division of Criminal Justice to buy 4 body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Colorado Department of Public Safety Division of Criminal JusticKDVR
The Fountain Police Department operates one DJI Mavic drone 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.fox21news.com
El Paso County Sheriff's Office
The El Paso County Sheriff's Office operates four Flock Safety automated license plate readers and other cameras as of June 2025. The agency stores ALPR data for 30 days.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Flock Safety
The El Paso County Sheriff's Office started its body-worn camera program in 2017 with 38 deputies.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KKTV 11 News
Colorado Springs Police Department
Colorado Springs Police Department uses the Fusus camera registry system.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): 404 Media
The Colorado Springs Police Department has a real time crime center that was named RTCC of the Quarter by the RTCCA.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Real Time Crime Center Association
The Colorado Springs Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Flock Safety
The Colorado Springs Police Department operates eight DJI 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.auvsi.org
The Colorado Springs Police Department implemented approximately 530 Coreforce (formerly Utility) body-worn cameras in 2016-2017.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Utility, Inc.KKTV 11 News
Palmer Lake Police Department
The Palmer Lake Police Department received a Small, Rural and Tribal Body-Worn Camera Program grant for $10,560 for 16 body-worn cameras in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Justice & Security StrategiesJustice & Security Strategies
The Palmer Lake Police Department operates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCH
Manitou Springs Police Department
The Manitou Springs Police Department obtained 17 body-worn cameras in 2018.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KRDO
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs Parking and Transportation Services
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs Parking and Transportation Services uses automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): University of Colorado, Colorado Springs Parking and Transportation Services
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026