Clackamas County

Over five years of consent agendas, the Sheriff’s Office built one of the larger camera stacks in this site’s Oregon coverage, almost entirely from one vendor. Body cameras in 2021 for $1,588,994.50. Body cameras, Tasers and software in January 2022 for $2,064,717. 150 in-vehicle cameras that March for $1,554,688.82. In August 2024, a purchase order for “public safety video surveillance equipment with related software, cloud services, and accessories” at $860,810.18, described in the record in exactly that one sentence. And in November 2025, after a work-session presentation whose published trace is its title, a ten-year contract addendum with Axon Enterprise for law enforcement equipment and software: $21,082,868.72.

The record behind those numbers is every business meeting the Board of County Commissioners publishes from January 2019 through late August 2026, plus every work session since that series began in mid-2021: 652 meeting pages on the county’s own site, every one machine-readable. Each purchase above appears as a consent item, approved in one motion with the rest of the calendar. The funding lines mostly say the same thing: the Sheriff’s levy or the Enhanced Law Enforcement District, no county general funds.

The District Attorney’s office runs on the same vendor. A $650,190 purchase of Axon’s Justice Premier system in 2023, and in April 2026 a ten-year, $1,946,228.06 contract for “video evidence analysis artificial intelligence tools”. That is the record’s whole description; which tools, pointed at what footage, under what policy, is a records request, and ours is drafted.

What the 652 documents do not contain is a plate reader. No ALPR purchase, renewal, or policy appears anywhere in the window we swept. The EFF Atlas records the Sheriff’s Office scanning 198,489 plates in 2019 with Vigilant Solutions equipment, citing a public-records release we cannot fetch, so the acquisition presumably sits in the pre-2019 archive we have not swept. Whether the system still operates is unknown. Since 31 March 2026, SB 1516 requires an agency operating plate readers to publish specified information first, and we could not find such a publication on the pages we swept. That claim carries a caveat particular to this county, below.

There are no drone purchases in the record either, and the state aviation registry, per the Atlas, lists 15 active DJI aircraft for the Sheriff’s Office as of 2024. Fifteen aircraft with no board item behind them is a gap the statewide registry request is drafted to close.

The caveat: the Sheriff’s Office runs its own website, and it is unread, so the Sheriff’s policy manual, any ALPR or drone policy, and any SB 1516 publication that might live there went unread this pass. The county’s main site carries everything cited above.

The rest of the camera record is buildings and vehicles: a jail camera contract update presented in October 2025, $324,821 of facility camera software licensing, transit vehicle cameras, and thermal camera features on the Sheriff’s airplane, paid for by the City of Portland under a regional grant.

What this county does not cover

The cities: Oregon City (body cameras and drones), Lake Oswego, Milwaukie and Canby (drones on the state registry), West Linn (a camera registry on Motorola’s CityProtect). Portland itself is in Multnomah County, though its money appears here.

Community contributors have mapped 35 devices across the county in OpenStreetMap. That count covers every agency and business at once and is never merged with anything above.