La Plata County
County record. Includes every city and agency within La Plata 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
Durango Police Department
The Durango Police Department operates 13 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of June 2025. The agency stores ALPR data for .
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Flock Safety
The Durango Police Department has a drone equipped with a zoom camera and a thermal-imaging as of April 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Journal
The Durango Police Department purchased 48 Axon body-worn cameras in 2017.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Durango HeraldDurango Police Department 2018 Annual ReportAward Results of Body Cameras
Fort Lewis College Police Department
The Fort Lewis College Police Department received a $35,595 grant in 2021 from the Colorado Department of Public Safety Division of Criminal Justice to buy 9 body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Colorado Department of Public Safety Division of Criminal JusticKDVR
Ignacio Police Department
The Ignacio Police Department received a $31,195 grant in 2021 from the Colorado Department of Public Safety Division of Criminal Justice to buy 5 body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Colorado Department of Public Safety Division of Criminal JusticKDVR
Southern Ute Police Department
The Southern Ute Police Department uses body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Southern Ute Drum
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026