County record · Oregon

Multnomah County

7 Deployments on record

4 Agencies

4 Technology categories

Technology presence

ALPR · 1 Fixed cameras & RTCC · none on record Face recognition · none on record Drones / UAS · 2 Gunshot detection · none on record Body-worn & dashcam · 3 Doorbell & camera registry · 1 Cell-site simulators · none on record Predictive policing · none on record Social-media monitoring · none on record

The record, by agency

Portland Police Bureau

Portland · 3 deployments · on UnGovr: City of Portland

ALPR

The Portland Police Bureau has been using automatic license plate readers since 2008.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Directives Manual/Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR) policies The Bulletin Willamette Week

Body-worn & dashcam Vendor: Axon

The Portland Police Bureau started a $2.6 million Axon body-worn camera pilot program in 2022.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Portland Mercury

Drones / UAS Vendor: DJI

The Portland Police Department has registered eight active drones with the Oregon Department of Aviation as of 2024.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Oregon Department of Aviation

Gresham Police Department

Gresham · 2 deployments · on UnGovr: City of Gresham

Body-worn & dashcam Vendor: Motorola Solutions

The Gresham Police Department purchased 139 body-worn cameras from Motorola in 2019.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of Gresham

Drones / UAS Vendor: DJI

The Gresham Police Department has registered 24 active drones with the Oregon Department of Aviation as of 2024.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Oregon Department of Aviation Gresham

Multnomah County Sheriff's Office

Portland · 1 deployment · on UnGovr: Multnomah County

Doorbell & camera registry

The Multnomah County Sheriff's Office maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Multnomah County Sheriff's Office

Portland State University Police Department

Portland · 1 deployment

Body-worn & dashcam

The U.S. Department of Justice awarded $20,364 to the Portland State University Police Department 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

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