Canyon County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Canyon 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
Caldwell Police Department
The Caldwell Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Newsbreak
The Caldwell Police Department uses Flock Safety Raven gunshot detection technology
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): 103.5 Kiss
The Caldwell Police Department operates five DJI drones as of 2019, 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.idahopress.com
Nampa Police Department
The Nampa Police Department uses automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Idaho News 6
The Nampa Police Department operates one DJI Phantom drone as of 2016, 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.kivitv.com
The Nampa Police Department first acquired body-worn cameras in 2009 before replacing their system in 2017 with BodyWorn body-worn cameras for all officers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Idaho PressIndependent Enterprise
Canyon County Sheriff's Office
The Canyon County Sheriff's Office's Department operates one Draganfly Innovations Draganflyer X6 drone as of 2012, 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.MuckRock.com
Wilder Police Department
The Wilder Police Department acquired Monitor Closely body-worn cameras in 2015.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Monitor Closely of Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky Facebook pageWilder Police Department Facebook
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026