Clark County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Clark 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
Henderson Police Department
The Henderson Police Department installed 54 Motorola automated license plate readers at major intersections and in 18 patrol cars throughout November 2024. The agency has used automated license plate readers since 2011.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): ACLUAccident Laywer HendersonKVVU
The Henderson Police Department uses body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): News 3KingtopLas Vegas Review Journal
The Henderson Police Department operated three Yuneec drones and two Autel Robotics drones as of 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Nevada Department of Public SafetyCenter for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Henderson Police Department's Community Awareness Program through Utilizing Residential Electronic Eyes (CAPTURE) program is a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of Henderson
Las Vegas Paiute Tribal Police Department
The Las Vegas Paiute Tribal Police Department uses Axon body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): AMBER Alert in Indian Country Website
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department operates a Drone as First Responder program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Volatus AerospaceLas Vegas Review-JournalKTNV
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department conducted 924 facial recognition searches in 2019.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department introduced ShotSpotter gunshot detection in 2017 and expanded the program in 2019 after applying for a $11.5 million grant.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Las Vegas Review JournalNews 3 Las VegasLas Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department's Technical Operations Section uses gunshot detection technology, face recognition software, social media monitoring and automated license plate readers at its real-time crime center. It also has access to Regional Transportation Commission buses to monitor crime. LVMPD claims that its can monitor all activities on the Strip from its RTCC.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KTNV Las VegasLVMPD TwitterLVMPD
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department began testing body-worn cameras in 2011. As of 2017, LVMPD had purchased about 2,000 BWCs from Axon.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Las Vegas Review JournalPR NewswireCNA
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department accesses databases containing information from automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KTNVVigilant SolutionsLas Vegas Metro Police Department
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department acquired cell-site simulator technology in 2013, according data compiled by Kevin Collier for Vocativ.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): VocativKevin Collierwww.documentcloud.org
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department's maintains a camera registry via Flock Safety. The SafeCam program is a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Las Vegas WebsiteLas Vegas Department of Public Safety
U.S. Customs and Border Protection - McCarran International Airport
The McCarran International Airport is one of 18 airports where Customs and Border Protection is using face recognition technology as of March 2019. An executive order signed by Pres. Trump in 2019 requires Customs and Border Protection to install face recognition technology at the United States' top 20 airports by 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): BuzzfeedTechCrunch
University of Nevada, Las Vegas Police Services
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas Police Services began using body-worn cameras in August 2018.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): University of Nevada, Las VegasUPD Facebook page
Boulder City Police Department
The Boulder City Police Department purchased Lenslock body-worn cameras in 2018.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Boulder CityBoulder City
The Boulder Police Department obtained ELSAG automated license plate readers in 2009.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): ACLULas Vegas Sun
North Las Vegas Police Department
The North Las Vegas Police Department purchased more than 200 Coreforce (formerly Utility) body-worn cameras in 2019.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KSNV
The North Las Vegas Police Department has patrol cars equipped with automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): North Las Vegas Police DepartmentNorth Las Vegas Police DepartmentLas Vegas Review Journal
Mesquite Police Department
In 2018 the Mesquite Police Department equipped two vehicles with automated license plate readers and began installing stationary ALPRs throughout the city.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KTNV Las VegasSiouxland Proud
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026