Douglas County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Douglas 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
Omaha Police Department
The Omaha Police Department uses Axon's Fusus real-time crime center platform.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KETV
The Omaha Police Department uses automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Omaha Police DepartmentFirst Alert 6
The Omaha Police Department launched a drone program in late 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WOWT
The Omaha Police Department began using body-worn cameras on a trial basis in 2013 and the whole department began using them in 2016. The U.S. Department of Justice awarded $67,500 to the Omaha Police Department in 2015 as part of the Bureau of Justice Assistance's body-worn camera grant program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): U.S Department of JusticeNebraska LegislatureOmaha.com
The Omaha Police Department began using ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology in 2011.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of OmahaNBC OmahaOmaha World-Herald
Douglas County Sheriff's Office
The Douglas County Sheriff's Office operates 25 Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KMTV
The Douglas County Sheriff's Office 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.wowt.com
The U.S. Department of Justice awarded $375,841 to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office in 2019 as part of the Bureau of Justice Assistance's body-worn camera grant program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): U.S Department of Justice
Ralston Police Department
The Ralston Police Department uses Axon body-worn cameras. The agency received an anonymous donation of $12,000 to purchase body-worn cameras in May 2016.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Ralston Police Department's Facebook PageOmaha World-HeraldKETV
Omaha Eppley Airfield Police Department
The Omaha Eppley Airfield Police Department searches automated license plate reader data.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Nebraska Commission on Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice
Valley Police Department
The Valley Police Department purchased seven Wolfcom body-worn cameras in 2016.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KETV Omaha
University of Nebraska at Omaha Police Department
The U.S. Department of Justice awarded $20,292 to the University of Nebraska at Omaha Police Department in 2016 as part of the Bureau of Justice Assistance's body-worn camera grant program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): U.S Department of Justice
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026