Carson City County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Carson City 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
Carson City Sheriff's Office
The Carson City Sheriff's Office operates a Real-Time Information Center.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): 2news
The Carson City Sheriff's Office uses two DJI Mavic systems, two Sky-Hero Loki drones, and a DJI Matrice 300RTK drone as of 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of Carson CityCenter for the Study of the Drone at Bard Collegedps.nv.gov
The Carson City Sheriff's Office had body-worn cameras as early as 2016, but purchased further Axon body-worn cameras in 2018 and 2019.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Carson City Board of SupervisorsCarson City Board of SupervisorsPahrump Valley Times
The Carson City Sheriff's Office obtained an automated license plate reader in 2012.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Carson Now
Nevada Highway Patrol
The Nevada Highway Patrol has been using automated license plate readers since at least 2009. In late 2024/early 2025, NHP began using ALPRs in connection with thermal imaging.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): ACLULas Vegas Review Journal
The Nevada Highway Patrol operated four Yuneec drones and one DJI as of 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Nevada Department of Public SafetyNevada Highway PatrolCenter for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles
The Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles responds to face recognition requests from out of state law enforcement agencies and other criminal agencies via the Nevada Threat Analysis Center.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Electronic Frontier Foundation
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026