Larimer County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Larimer 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
Loveland Police Department
The Loveland Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): 9 News
The Loveland Police Department obtained 105 Axon body-worn cameras in 2019 and expanded the contract in 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Times-CallColoradoanLoveland Police Department
The Loveland Police Department operates one Parrot AR Drone drone as of 2014, 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.reporterherald.comwww.larimeruas.com
Larimer County Sheriff's Office
The Larimer County Sheriff's Office received a $273,195 grant in 2021 from the Colorado Department of Public Safety Division of Criminal Justice to buy 225 body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Colorado Department of Public Safety Division of Criminal JusticKDVR
The Larimer County Sheriff's Office operates two DJI drones as of 2016, according to data compiled by the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College. The agency began using drones in 2017.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard CollegeCBS Coloradowww.reporterherald.com
Fort Collins Police Services
The Fort Collins Police Services received a $75,195 grant in 2021 from the Colorado Department of Public Safety Division of Criminal Justice to buy 45 body-worn cameras. Previously, the agency acquired 20 body-worn cameras in 2012. Later, the program expanded to include 40 additional body-worn cameras, and all officers were equipped with body-worn cameras by 2018.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Colorado Department of Public Safety Division of Criminal JusticKDVRFort Collins Police Services
Colorado State University Police Department
The Colorado State University Police Department operated drones as of 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Colorado State University Police DepartmentColorado State UniversityCenter for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Colorado State University Police Department uses body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Colorado State University Police Department Policy ManualColoradoanCSU Police Facebook page
Fort Collins Police Department Services
The Fort Collins Police Department Services operates one DJI Inspire drone as of 2017, 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.coloradoan.comwww.larimeruas.com
Colorado State University Parking and Transportation Services
The Colorado State University Parking and Transportation Services uses automated-licese plate readers for parking enforcement.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Colorado State University 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