How to show up in Yavapai County
Surveillance is approved by people who hold public meetings any resident can attend. This page lists the bodies that do that in Yavapai County, what we have confirmed about attending each one, and where each publishes its agendas.
We do not publish meeting dates. A schedule we cannot check often enough would eventually send someone to the wrong place on the wrong night. Each body below links to wherever it publishes its own agendas and schedule, and that is the copy to trust.
Countywide
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Yavapai County Board of Supervisors
Watch this oneIn August 2026 this Board turned down three plate reader units and an investigative data subscription for the Sheriff's Office, which Sedona Red Rock News reports had been taken off the consent agenda. Two years earlier it approved $3.24 million of Axon contracts on consent, and it still buys police software under an agreement from 1992.
- When
- Meetings are held on Wednesday mornings at 9:00 a.m. The Board sits at the same sitting as the boards of the county's improvement districts, its flood control district, the free library district and the jail district, so one agenda often covers several bodies. Check the agenda portal for which Wednesdays.
- Where
- Board of Supervisors' Hearing Room, First Floor, Yavapai County Administrative Services Building, 1015 Fair Street, Prescott. The agendas mention two Board hearing rooms, so confirm which one on the agenda for the day you plan to attend. Hearing aid devices are available in both.
- Remote
- The agendas say that one or more board members may attend telephonically or virtually, and that those attending that way will be announced at the meeting. That is about supervisors, not the public. We have found no published way for a resident to speak remotely, so plan to be in Prescott.
- Public comment
- Every agenda carries a Call to the Public, and states the rule in full: "Individuals may address the Board for up to three (3) minutes on any relevant issue within the Board's jurisdiction." Know what it can and cannot do before you go. The same notice records that under Arizona law "Board members shall not discuss or take action on matters raised during the call to the public", though "The Board may direct staff to study the matter or direct that the matter be rescheduled for consideration at a later date". So the useful outcome of speaking is getting your issue put on a future agenda, where the Board can actually act on it.
- Written comment
- — not confirmed
- Who to ask
- Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, Yavapai County. The agendas state they are published at least twenty four hours before each meeting on the county website. (checked )
Read from the Board's own agendas, 2020 to 2026, which carry the meeting notice, the address and the Call to the Public rule on every one. The county's website asks automated readers to stay out of its meetings pages, so nothing here comes from it.
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What this list does not cover yet
These are the bodies we have confirmed, not every body in the county. Yavapai County has other commissions and committees, and other school and special districts, that we have not documented yet. Several of the county's own committees publish on the same county portal linked above.
Before you go, and after
Civic action
Read what is already on the record for Yavapai County first. A resident who has read the contract changes the room.
What is documented in Yavapai County →Personal protection
Knowing which systems operate near you also tells you where your own choices still matter.
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