Polk County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Polk 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
Polk County Sheriff's Office
The Polk County Sheriff's Office has registered two active drones with the Oregon Department of Aviation as of 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Oregon Department of Aviation
Dallas Police Department
The Dallas Police Department has registered three active drones with the Oregon Department of Aviation as of 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Oregon Department of AviationMuckRock
The Dallas Police Department received a Small, Rural, and Tribal Body-Worn Camera Program grant for $44,000.00 for 23 body-worn cameras in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Justice & Security StrategiesJustice & Security Strategies
The Dallas Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras through its SCRAM program. It also accepts registrations through Motorola Solutions' CityProtect platform.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Dallas Police DepartmentCityProtect
Grand Ronde Tribal Police Department
The Grand Ronde Tribal Police Department has been using body-worn cameras since 2016.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Smoke SignalsThe Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Facebook page
The Grand Ronde Tribal Police Department received a $66,184 grant to install an automated license plate reader system on a patrol car in 2013.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Smoke Signals
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026