Lane County

The first Oregon county researched whose entire record sits on its own government website. The Sheriff publishes all 214 of its general orders there, the Board publishes its own compiled agendas, and nothing stands behind a vendor’s robots file. Everything readable was read: two million characters, one dead link, one deliberate redaction.

The rules are current where it counts. The body camera order, revised in May 2024, bars facial recognition and biometric matching on the footage, and its vendor clause says something most policies never think to say: any storage contract must state the recordings belong to the Sheriff’s Office, not the vendor. The drone order tracks Oregon’s statute section by section and is published in redacted form, which the Sheriff’s own index announces rather than hides.

The plate readers are reported and invisible at once. The press reported the office purchasing 22 Flock Safety cameras in late 2025, awaiting deployment plans. No general order governs them, and no board agenda title in 2024, 2025 or 2026 names them, which means the purchase was not a named agenda item in the year it reportedly happened. The agenda compilations are titles only, so a consent packet or a below-threshold procurement would not show. Oregon’s SB 1516 has required policies to be published before deployment since March 2026, so cameras still in storage need no published policy yet, and cameras in service would. Which of those is true, where the purchase was approved, and what the contract says are the first questions on this county’s records request.

What this county does not cover

The cities: Eugene, whose police department the EFF Atlas records with body cameras and six registered drones; Springfield; Florence, which the Atlas gives its own Flock cameras; and the rest. The University of Oregon’s police department and the Coos Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Tribal Police Department appear in the Atlas here too, the second tribal agency it places in an Oregon county, and the county model of this site cannot yet hold either.

Community contributors have mapped 216 devices across the county in OpenStreetMap. That count covers every agency and business at once and is never merged with anything above.