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Nye County

2 Deployments on record
1 Agencies
2 Technology categories

Technology presence

ALPR · 1 Fixed cameras & RTCC · none on record Face recognition · none on record Drones / UAS · none on record Gunshot detection · none on record Body-worn & dashcam · 1 Doorbell & camera registry · none on record Cell-site simulators · none on record Predictive policing · none on record Social-media monitoring · none on record

The record, by agency

Nye County Sheriff's Office

Tonopah · 2 deployments · on UnGovr: Nye County

ALPR Vendor: PIPS Technology

The Nye County Sheriff's Office purchased two automated license plate readers from PIPS Technology in 2010 for $37,400.

Body-worn & dashcam

The U.S. Department of Justice awarded $165,000 to the Nye County Sheriff's Office in 2016 as part of the Bureau of Justice Assistance's body-worn camera grant program. The Nye County Sheriff's Office also received a Small, Rural and Tribal Body-Worn Camera Program grant for $314,000 for 157 body-worn cameras in 2023.

Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026