Eddy County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Eddy 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
Artesia Police Department
The Artesia Police Department uses Axon Body 4 body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Artesia Police Department's Facebook pageCity of Artesianmpolicechiefs.org
The Artesia Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras through Motorola Solutions' CityProtect platform.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CityProtect
Eddy County Sheriff’s Office
The Eddy County Sheriff uses Clearview AI face recognition techonology, according to a December 2023 news report.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KOB
Carlsbad Police Department
The Carlsbad Police Department recieved a grant in 2022 to purchase automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): U.S. Bureau of Justice Assistance
The Carlsbad Police Department purchased 60 WatchGuard body-worn cameras in 2015
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Carlsbad Current argusCity of CarlsbadCity of Carlsbad
Artesia Public High School
The Artesia School District served as a beta test site for the Eagl system and in 2018 chose to implement it district wide.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): EAGL Technology YouTubeKRQE
Eddy County Sheriff's Office
The Eddy County Sheriff's Office purchased 37 Wolfcom body-worn cameras in 2016.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Artesia Daily Press
The Eddy County Sheriff's Office maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras through Motorola Solutions' CityProtect platform.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CityProtect
Pecos Valley Drug Task Force
The Pecos Valley Drug Task Force maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras through Motorola Solutions' CityProtect platform.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CityProtect
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026