Salt Lake County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Salt Lake 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
West Valley Police Department
The West Valley City Police Department has had Flock Safety automated license plate readers since at least 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KSL NewsRadioWest Valley City Police Department
The West Valley Police Department uses Axon body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Salt Lake TribunalWest Valley Police Department Facebook page
Salt Lake City Police Department
The Salt Lake City Police Department uses Brinc drones.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Salt Lake City PoliceSalt Lake City Police Department
The Salt Lake City Police Department uses Axon body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Salt Lake City Police DepartmentSalt Lake City Police Department Facebook page.
South Salt Lake Police Department
The South Salt Lake Police had Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KSL NewsRadio
West Jordan Police Department
The West Jordan Police Department had Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KSL NewsRadio
Sandy City Police Department
The Sandy City Police Department uses WatchGuard Vista body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pamplin Media GroupUtah State LegislatureFacebook
The Sandy City Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Sandy City
Draper Police Department
The Draper City Police Department uses Axon body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Fox 13Draper City Police Department Facebook page
South Jordan Police Department
The South Jordan Police Department uses WatchGuard Vista body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): South Jordan Police DepartmentSouth Jordan Police Department Facebook page.
Utah Department of Public Safety
The Utah Department of Public Safety (DPS) responds to requests from the FBI, law enforcement, and other government agencies that can provide an official case or report number in order to run face recognition queries on their repository, which consists of mugshots, corrections photos, and drivers licenses. A list of agency requests made during 2017 includes Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Department of Homeland Security, various state Fusion Centers, state Secret Service agencies, and the United States Office of National Drug Control Policy.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Electronic Frontier FoundationGovernment Accountability Office
Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office
The Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue operates one DJI Inspire drone, 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.facebook.com
Utah Highway Patrol
The Utah Highway Patrol operates four DJI drones as of 2015, 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.MuckRock.com
West Valley City Police Department
The West Valley City Police Department operates two drones as of 2019, 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.valleyjournals.comwww.faa.gov
Murray Police Department
The Murray Police Department claims to be the first law enforcement agency in the Salt Lake Valley to implement body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Murray City
Unified Police Department of Greater Salt Lake
The U.S. Department of Justice awarded $181,540 to the Unified Police Department of Greater Salt Lake in 2015 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