Weber County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Weber 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
Weber County Sheriff
The Weber County Sheriff's Office uses DJI drones.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KSL BroadcastingWeber County Sheriff's Office
North Ogden Police Department
The North Ogden Police Department uses Wolfcom body-worn cameras, according to a testimonial on the company's website. The North Ogden Police Department also received a Small, Rural and Tribal Body-Worn Camera Program grant for $22,000 for 22 body-worn cameras in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WolfcomOneZeroJustice & Security Strategies
The North Ogden Police Department began using Flock Safety automated license plate readers on a trial basis in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): North Ogden City Council
Weber County Sheriff's Office
The Weber County Sheriff's Office purchased Vievu body-worn cameras for $3,305 in 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Weber CountyWeber County Sheriff's Office Facebook
The Plain City Council, which contracts with the Weber County Sheriff's Office for public safety services, approved six Flock Safety automated license plate readers in 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Plain City
Harrisville Police Department
The Harrisville Police Department received $17,454 from the Bureau of Justice Assistance to purchase 12 body-worn cameras through the 2022 Small, Rural, Tribal BWC Microgrant program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Small, Rural, and Tribal Body-Worn Camera microgrant grantee list
Ogden Police Department
The Ogden Police Department has been using automated license plate readers since 2009.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Standard-ExaminerCity of OgdenCity of Ogden
Since 2011, the Ogden Police Department has operated the Area Tactical Analysis Center, which is currently located in the Public Safety Building near Ogden’s historic downtown district. Despite being a relatively small city, Ogden’s ATAC uses a wide array of surveillance technologies, including a citywide network of more than a thousand cameras, camera trailers, automated license plate readers, crime data analysis and mapping software, and advanced imaging software.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): FOX 13GeoTimeSmart Cities Council
The Ogden Police Department uses body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Office of the Chief
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026