Kitsap County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Kitsap 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
Poulsbo Police Department
The Poulsbo Police Department received $18,126 from the Bureau of Justice Assistance to purchase 19 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
The Poulsbo Police Department operates one DJI Mavic drone 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.kitsapsun.comwww.faa.gov
Suquamish Police Department
The Suquamish Police Department uses Axon body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Suquamish Police Department Facebook GroupBureau of Justice AssistanceBureau of Justice Assistance
Port Gamble Police Department
The Port Gamble Police Department uses Axon body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Port Gamble Police Department Facebook Page
Bremerton Police Department
The Bremerton Police Department purchased 50 body-worn cameras in 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KOMO News
The Bremerton Police Department started a registry of surveillance cameras voluntarily submitted by local residents and businesses in 2019.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Kiro7
Port Orchard Police Department
The Port Orchard Police Department began using drones in 2020.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Port Orchard Police Department
Kitsap County Sheriff's Office
The Kitsap County Sheriff's Office operates one DJI Mavic drone 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.king5.com
The Kitsap County Sheriff's Office has used automated license plate readers since at least 2013.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Seattle Times
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026