Washington
San Juan County
On record
Checked 27 Aug 2026- Technologies
- 0
- Systems
- 0
- Devices mapped
- 3
San Juan County, Washington. Device data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), with community reporting via DeFlock. Open the full map →
San Juan County’s council record is one of the most readable in our Washington coverage, and it holds no surveillance at all. Across 1,030 readable council documents from 2024 through 2026, every match for our search terms turned out to be something else: tourists who flock to the islands, avian flu advisories about backyard flocks, and a conservation easement whose drone clause prohibits flying them over protected habitat. The closest the record comes to a surveillance vendor is a $645 invoice from Axon for Taser cartridges and batteries, a weapons resupply, not a camera system. No Atlas of Surveillance row exists for any agency in the county.
The absence has better footing here than in most small counties, a thousand readable documents’ worth, but it keeps its scope: sixty of the council’s documents in our window are scanned images with no text layer, and the Sheriff’s Office’s own inventory is a records question the request asks directly.
What this record does not cover
The sixty scanned-image documents, and everything before 2024, which lives in the county’s older agenda archive. The islands’ town of Friday Harbor and its police, municipal, never merged into county counts.
Community contributors have mapped 3 devices across the county in OpenStreetMap. That count covers every agency and business at once and is never merged with anything above.
Trackers
Meetings, contracts, records
Nothing listed yet. The trackers launch here, and facts appear only with their sources.
How the inventory works →What you can do
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Public comment is open to any resident, and you do not have to be an expert to use it. We have not yet confirmed where the bodies that decide for San Juan County meet. How the inventory works explains what we check and how to check it yourself.
How the inventory works →Personal protection
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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.
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