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Lemhi County · Idaho

Salmon

Lemhi County’s seat, a city of about three thousand people where the Lemhi River meets the Salmon, and the only city of any size in the county. The Salmon Police Department is based here, at the City Center on Main Street, and so are the county courthouse, the county jail and the Sheriff’s dispatch center that answers every 911 call in the county.

Two equipment grants described to the county’s Board of County Commissioners in 2026 belong to this city: one for license plate readers, and one of $400,000 for body cameras, in-car cameras, jail cameras and prosecutor video management, which the city invited the county to apply for jointly.

The City Council publishes its agendas from 2022 and its minutes from 2023 on the city’s website. None of those documents has been read for this project.

On record, Salmon

Systems documented
1
Operating now
0
Devices counted at the county level

Devices mapped inside the city are not separated from the county map yet. See the Lemhi County map. A system run jointly with an agency outside the city counts here because one of its operators is based in the city.

Agencies

By technology

1 operator
  • Proposed Lemhi County Sheriff and Salmon Police Updated

    The Sheriff's Office has no body cameras and no in-car cameras. The plan to get them is a $400,000 grant the City of Salmon is applying for.

What you can do

Civic action

Show up

The Salmon city council decides for city departments like the police, at public meetings any resident can attend and speak at. Other agencies based in Salmon, such as a school district, answer to their own elected boards. We have confirmed where these bodies meet and how public comment works at each one.

How to show up in Lemhi County →

Personal protection

Protect yourself

Each technology page explains what the system records and what reduces your exposure to it: Body cameras.

Body cameras →