Pueblo County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Pueblo 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
Pueblo Police Department
The Pueblo Police Department launched a real-time crime center in 2024.
The Pueblo Police Department installed Shotspotter over three square miles in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): SoundThinkingKKTVPueblo Police Department
The Pueblo Police Department operates two 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.krdo.comwww.koaa.com
The Pueblo Police Department has used body-worn cameras since 2014. PPD upgraded the Axon cameras in March 2020.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KRDOThe Pueblo Chieftain
The Pueblo Police Department began using ELSAG automated license plate readers in 2010. PPD added another ALPR system in 2018. The Pueblo Transportation Department also added Nupark ALPR systems, which is checked against the Pueblo Police Department's hot lists.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of Pueblo ColoradoPueblo Police Department Annual ReportPueblo Chieftain
Pueblo Community College Police Department
The Pueblo Community College 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
Pueblo County Sheriff's Office
The Pueblo County Sheriff's Office began testing Axon body-worn cameras in 2014 and implemented a formal program in 2015.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): U.S. Department of JusticePueblo Police DepartmentU.S. Department of Justice
The Pueblo County Sheriff's Office operates eight 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.faa.govwww.agjournalonline.com
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026