Jackson County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Jackson 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
Jackson County Sheriff's Office
The Jackson County Sheriff's Office has registered nine active drones with the Oregon Department of Aviation as of 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Oregon Department of Aviation
Medford Police Department
The Medford Police Department has registered three active drones with the Oregon Department of Aviation as of 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Oregon Department of Aviation
The Medford Police Department received approval for a five-year $370,000 contract with Axon to outfit all 35 Medford Police patrol vehicles with new Fleet 3 Flock Safety automated license plate readers with ALPRing enabled in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KTVL
The Medford Police Department had 85 Axon body-worn cameras, as of 2017.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Mail Tribune
The Medford Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Medford Website
Jackson County Sheriff’s Office
The Jackson County Sheriff's Office uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Florence, OR
Central Point Police Department
The Central Point Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Florence, OR
The Central Point Police Department uses body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Mail TribuneKOBI-5
The Central Point Police Department maintains a volunteer security camera registry.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Central Point Police Department
Talent Police Department
The Talent Police Department uses body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Mail TribuneTalent Police Department
Ashland Police Department
The Ashland Police Department purchased 35 body-worn cameras in 2014.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Student supported weekly newspaper
The Ashland Police Department maintains a voluntary camera registry program through its website and through Motorola Solutions' CityProtect platform.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Ashland Police departmentCityProtect
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026