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Who uses body cameras in Clackamas County?

What we do not know

Clackamas County Sheriff

  • The equipment schedule of the 2024 "public safety video surveillance equipment" order, and of the 2025 ten-year addendum. The consent items describe both in a sentence each.
  • The body-worn and in-car camera policies. Oregon law (ORS 133.741) requires an agency using body cameras to adopt policies and procedures for the recordings; the Sheriff's website, where a policy would publish, is closed to crawlers.
  • The retention settings for footage in Axon's evidence platform, and who can query it.

What body cameras are

A camera worn by an officer, recording encounters with the public. What it captures, how long the footage is kept and who may watch it are set by department policy rather than by one statewide rule.

How they work, why agencies buy them, and every county we have documented →

What you can do

Civic action

Show up

This technology is bought and renewed by boards, councils and committees that meet in public. We have not yet confirmed where each of them meets in Clackamas County.

Go to the Clackamas County hub →

Personal protection

Protect yourself

Practical steps to shrink your personal data trail. Our guides publish at launch; until then, EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense is the best starting point.

Surveillance Self-Defense ↗