Atlas · State

Colorado

What is documented about automated license plate surveillance in Colorado — and what is still an open question.

Are automated license plate readers used in Colorado?

Yes. Volunteers have recorded 2,439 automated license plate reader camera locations in Colorado, across 41 counties. That is a floor, not an inventory — it counts what someone has mapped, not what exists.

Camera data retrieved Aug 15, 2026 · Most recent record Aug 11, 2026

2,439 Camera coordinates 2.1% of the 118,623 we hold nationally. Community-reported, not field-verified by us.
41 Counties with a mapped camera Assigned geometrically from Census county boundaries. A county with no entry has no mapped camera, which is not the same as none.
1 Documented decisions 1 ended, declined, or suspended · 0 adopted, renewed, or expanded.
0 Full dossiers Places researched down to retention, sharing, warrant standard, and audit policy — including the fields that come back unknown.

Known ALPR locations

Coverage incomplete

  • Camera coordinate
  • Jurisdiction record — no camera coordinates held
  • Program ended, declined, or prohibited

2,439 mapped camera coordinates · 42 jurisdiction records · 50 of 50 states have data. Camera coordinates © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Boundaries and roads: US Census, public domain. Roads are drawn for orientation only — a camera near a road is not a claim about which road it watches.

Pinned to Colorado. Open the national Atlas to compare with neighbouring states.

Who supplies the cameras

Vendor attribution as recorded by OpenStreetMap contributors. Where a contributor did not identify the vendor the record reads “Unspecified” — that is an unrecorded fact, not a vendorless camera.

Vendor Mapped cameras Share
Flock Safety 2,138 87.7%
Unspecified 83 3.4%
Genetec 59 2.4%
Axon 50 2.1%
Neology 44 1.8%
Motorola Solutions 30 1.2%
Axis Communications 17 0.7%
Leonardo/Elsag 11 0.5%
Avigilon 4 0.2%
LiveView Technologies 3 0.1%

Where in Colorado

2,445 mapped cameras assigned to the county containing them. The 29 remaining counties with at least one mapped camera are in the open data.

  • Arapahoe 349
  • Douglas 246
  • Denver 225
  • El Paso 209
  • Jefferson 207
  • Adams 185
  • Weld 171
  • Larimer 155
  • Boulder 155
  • Pueblo 104
  • Mesa 87
  • Broomfield 72

What governments here have decided

Every decision we hold for Colorado, most recent first. The Decision Record exists because deployment databases record arrivals and not reversals.

Jurisdiction Decision Date Vendor Sourcing
Denver Declined May 5, 2025 Flock Safety Reported

Signal

No Signal story yet names Colorado. That is a gap in our coverage rather than a quiet state — send us what you are seeing.

National developments that apply here

These are not about Colorado specifically. They govern the cameras in it.

Documented harms and verification

Incidents

Verified Unsurveilled

No community in Colorado has been assessed against the standard yet. Compare yours.

What we don’t know about Colorado

We hold no researched record for Colorado deep enough to have produced open questions yet. That is the largest gap on this page.

Help close the gaps.

We hold records for 1 Colorado jurisdiction. There are far more than that. A single records request from a resident often establishes more than weeks of desk research.

Places in Colorado

The largest 40 of 84 places we can put on the map. Selecting one centres the map there. A place appearing here says nothing about whether it has cameras — it is a label, and the camera layer is separate and incomplete.