Skagit County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Skagit 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.
- Fusion & investigative platforms
- Third-party platforms that fuse data across sources, sometimes including other surveillance feeds, for law-enforcement search and analysis, sold or licensed to multiple agencies rather than built by any one of them: examples include Palantir, Peregrine Systems, C3.ai, and SoundThinking's CrimeTracer (formerly Coplink X). Adjacent: an analytics layer that sits above the surveillance feeds this site otherwise tracks, rather than a sensing deployment of its own.
The record, by agency
Drafted with AI
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Sedro-Woolley Police Depatment
The Sedro-Woolley Police Department uses Flock Safety license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Go Skagit
Skagit County Sheriff's Office
The Skagit County Sheriff's Office began using Axon body-worn cameras in 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Skagit CountyBureau of Justice AssistanceSkagit County Sheriff's Facebook page
The Skagit County Sheriff's Office operates three DJI drones as of 2017, 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.faa.govwww.goskagit.com
Swinomish Police Department
The Swinomish Police Department operates one DJI Matrice 210 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 CollegeLink Compiled by Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard CollegeCenter for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Sauk-Suiattle Tribal Police Department
The Sauk-Suiattle Tribal Police Department uses Watchguard body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Sauk Suiattle Public Saftey Facebook page
City of Anacortes
Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.
Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory
City of Burlington
Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.
Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory
City of Mount Vernon
Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.
Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory
Camera counts measured independently of this record
Flock Safety publishes a live camera count on each agency's own transparency portal. One agency has a portal we read directly, with no deployment documented above for that technology. Each count below is measured, dated, and cited to the portal itself, via UnGovr, rather than a claim about what the documented record establishes.
| Agency | Technology | Cameras | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of Mount Vernon | ALPR | 6 | August 2026 | Flock Safety transparency portal |
Sources: Flock Safety transparency portals · FBI Crime Data Explorer · EFF Atlas of Surveillance