Lane County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Lane 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
Eugene Police Department
The Eugene Police Department has 57+ automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KLCC
The Eugene Police Department has registered six active drones with the Oregon Department of Aviation as of 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Oregon Department of Aviation
The Eugene Police Department began using body-worn cameras in 2017.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Register-Guard
Florence Police Department
The Florence Police Department has Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KLCC
The Florence Police Department has registered five active drones with the Oregon Department of Aviation as of 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Oregon Department of Aviation
Springfield Police Department
The Springfield Police Department has 24 automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KLCC
The Springfield Police Department has registered five active drones with the Oregon Department of Aviation as of 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Oregon Department of Aviation
Lane County Sheriff's Office
The Lane County Sheriff's Office has registered seven active drones with the Oregon Department of Aviation as of 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Oregon Department of AviationMuckRock
Coos Lower Umpqua And Siuslaw Tribal Police Department
The Coos Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Tribal Police Department uses Pro-vision body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Confederated Tribes of Coos Lower Umpqua And Siuslaw Indians Newsletter
University of Oregon Police Department
The University or Oregon Police Department obtained body-worn cameras in 2015.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Daily Emerald
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026