Grant County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Grant 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
Moses Lake Police Department
The Moses Lake Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Urbanist
The Moses Lake Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras through Motorola Solutions' CityProtect platform.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CityProtect
Warden Police Department
The Warden Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Urbanist
Grant County Sheriff's Office
The Grant County Sheriff's Office uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Sumner, WA
The Grant County Sheriff's Office uses Axon body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Grant County Technology Services
The Grant County Sheriff's Office operates two DJI drones as of 2016, 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.ifiberone.comwww.grantcountywa.gov
Moses Lake School District
The Moses Lake School District, patrolled by the Moses Lake Police, uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Sumner, WA
Mattawa Police Department
The Mattawa Police Department uses Axon body-worn cameras
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Facebook
Royal City Police Department
The Royal City Police Department began using body-worn cameras in November 2020.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): King 5
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026