Marion County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Marion 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
Woodburn Police Department
The Woodburn Police Department installed 24 license plate reader cameras at a first-year cost of $96,000, with a recurring yearly fee of $84,000.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Woodburn Independent
The Woodburn Police Department has registered five active drones with the Oregon Department of Aviation as of 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Oregon Department of AviationMuckRock
The Woodburn Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of Wood Burn
Marion County Sheriff's Office
The Marion County Sheriff's Office has registered ten active drones with the Oregon Department of Aviation as of 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Oregon Department of Aviation
The U.S. Department of Justice awarded $99,000 to the Marion County Sheriff's Office in 2016 as part of the Bureau of Justice Assistance's body-worn camera grant program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): U.S Department of Justice
Salem Police Department
The Salem Police Department has registered 20 active drones with the Oregon Department of Aviation as of 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Oregon Department of Aviation
In November 2021, the Salem City Council approved the use of $816,000 in state grant money for the Salem Police Department body-worn camera program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Statesman Journal
The Salem Police Department shared data collected using Vigilant Solutions automated license plate readers with 43 other law enforcement agencies, according to documents produced in 2018.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): MuckRock
The Salem Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of Salem
Keizer Police Department
The Keizer 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
Keizer Police Department received $38,000 to purchase 20 body-worn cameras through the Small, Rural and Tribal Body-Worn Camera program in 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): SRT BWC Program
The Keizer Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras through Motorola Solutions' CityProtect platform.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CityProtectCity of Keizer
Oregon Department of Aviation
The Oregon Department of Aviation has registered four active drones with the Oregon Department of Aviation as of 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Oregon Department of Aviation
Oregon Driver and Motor Vehicle Services
Oregon Driver and Motor Vehicle Services has a face recognition system, but does not allow external entities to use it.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Electronic Frontier Foundation
Oregon State Police
The Oregon State Police uses body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Mail TribunePortland Police Department
Aumsville Police Department
The Aumsville Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras through Motorola Solutions' CityProtect platform.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CityProtect
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026