Yakima County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Yakima 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
Zillah Police Department
The Zillah Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Urbanist
The Zillah Police Department received a Small, Rural, and Tribal Body-Worn Camera Program grant for $5,880 for 5 body-worn cameras in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Justice & Security StrategiesJustice & Security Strategies
The Zillah Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras through Motorola Solutions' CityProtect platform.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CityProtect
Selah Police Department
The Selah Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Urbanist
The Selah Police Department bought Axon body-worn cameras in February 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Yaktri News
Harrah Police Department
The Harrah Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Urbanist
Mabton Police Department
The Mabton Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Urbanist
Moxee Police Department
The Moxee Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Urbanist
Tieton Police Department
The Tieton Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Urbanist
Toppenish Police Department
The Toppenish Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Urbanist
Union Gap Police Department
The Union Gap Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Urbanist
Wapato Police Department
The Wapato Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Urbanist
Granger Police Department
The Granger Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Sumner, WA
Yakima Police Department
As of April 2024, the Yakima Police Department operates 42 Flock Safety automated license plate readers. The agency stores ALPR data for 30 days.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Flock SafetyThe News & ObserverThe News & Observer
The Yakima Police Department's SafeCam program is a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of Yakima
Sunnyside Police Department
The Sunside Police Department planned to install 40 Flock Safety automated license plate readers in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Sunnyside Sun
Grandview Police Department
The Grandview Police Department installed 20 Flock Safety automated license plate readers in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KIMA
Grandview Police Department utilizes drones.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of GrandviewCity of Grandview
The Grandview Police Department outfitted every officer with body-worn cameras in 2019.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KHSB 41
Yakima County Sheriff's Office
The Yakima County Sheriff's Office purchased 70 body-worn cameras from Axon in 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Government TechnologyYakima Herald-Republic
The Yakima County Sheriffs Office began its drone program in 2018. The office also has borrowed a drone with thermal imaging from Yakima Valley Emergency Management.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): News Talk KITYakima Valley Emergency ManagementYakima County Sheriff's Office Facebook page
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026