Deschutes County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Deschutes 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
Bend Police Department
The Bend Police Department uses Axon's Fusus camera registry.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): MyCentralOregon.com404 Media
The Bend Police Department has registered 33 active drones with the Oregon Department of Aviation as of 2024. However, the agency says that only 15 drones are used in the field.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Oregon Department of AviationBend Police DepartmentBend Police Department
The Bend Police Department began using Axon body-worn cameras in 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): News 6
Deschutes County Sheriff's Office
The Deschutes County Sheriff's Office has registered 17 active drones with the Oregon Department of Aviation as of 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Oregon Department of Aviation
Redmond Police Department
The Redmond Police Department has registered eight active drones with the Oregon Department of Aviation as of 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Oregon Department of AviationMuckRockMuckRock
The Redmond Police Department began using WatchGuard body-worn cameras in 2017.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Bend SourceTwitter
Sunriver Police Department
The Sunriver Police Department has registered two active drones with the Oregon Department of Aviation as of 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Oregon Department of Aviation
The Sunriver Police Department installed Flock Safety automated license plate readers in June 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KTVZ
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026