El Paso County
County record. Includes every city and agency within El Paso 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
Anthony Police Department
The Anthony Police Department has installed 11 Flock Safety automated license plate readers, according to data obtained in July 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Muckrock
The Anthony Police Department has installed 47 Flock Safey Raven gunshot detection devices as of July 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Muckrock
Horizon City Police Department
The Horizon City Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers, according to data obtained in July 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Muckrock
The Horizon City Police Department began its body-worn camera program in around 2012.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): El Paso Times
El Paso Police Department
The El Paso Police Department had 34 body-worn cameras as of 2019 and received a federal grant for additional BWCs in 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): El Paso Police DepartmentUS Bureau of Justice Assistance
The El Paso Police Department operates four DJI drones as of 2018, according to data compiled by the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard Collegewww.elpasotexas.govwww.faa.gov
According to the Texas A&M Transportation Institute: "The El Paso Police Department has used ALPR since 2006, and currently operates 23 mobile units with ALPR. Besides the mobile units, the El Paso Police also own six ALPR‐equipped trailers that can be parked alongside a roadway. The trailers include a radar system and 'your speed is' display that faces approaching traffic, while the ALPR camera is positioned on the opposite side to read rear license plates as vehicles pass it."
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Texas A&M Transportation Institutelegacy.elpasotexas.gov
The El Paso Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of El Paso
El Paso County Sheriff's Office
As of 2017, the El Paso County Sheriff's Office had 250 body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): El Paso Timescbs4local.com
Drug Enforcement Administration
According to records obtained by the ACLU, the Drug Enforcement Administration El Paso Division purchased $412,871 in cell-site simulator equipment from Harris Corporation in 2013, "including upgrading three Stingray I and Stingray II cell site simulators used by its El Paso and Albuquerque offices to the newer Hailstorm model."
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): ACLU
El Paso ISD Police Department
As of December 2015, the El Paso Independent School District equipped all 43 of its officers with body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): El Paso Times
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026