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Free real-time location for every Colorado first responder.

COTAK puts your responders, your mutual-aid partners and live statewide data on a shared map. Free for every Colorado public safety agency.

CloudTAK on a phone showing the Golden Fire incident: 42 responders and resources plotted on a live map
6,683Responders on COTAK
491Agencies
914Channels

Radios tell you what’s happening. COTAK shows you where.

COTAK is Colorado’s free real-time location service for public safety. Everyone enrolled sees themselves, their team and other agencies on the same map, on any device.

Who can join?

Any Colorado public safety agency: law enforcement, fire, EMS, search and rescue and emergency management.

What does it cost?

Nothing. COTAK is free for every Colorado public safety agency, and the TAK apps are free in the app stores.

Which apps work with it?

CloudTAK on the web, iPhone and Android. Teams on ATAK, iTAK and WinTAK connect to the same server.

Who can see my location?

Only people in the channels you turn on. Your agency’s administrators decide which channels exist and who is in them.

A responder holding up a phone running ATAK above the canyons of Colorado National MonumentA wildland firefighter checking a phone on the hood of a truck at a fire camp

Trusted by agencies across Colorado

  • Routt County Sheriff's Office
  • Thornton Police Department
  • Mesa County Search and Rescue
  • La Junta Police Department
  • Boulder Police Department
  • Arapahoe County Sheriff
  • Mountain View Fire Protection District
  • El Paso County Sheriff's Office
  • Monument Fire District
  • Fremont County Emergency Management
  • Wheat Ridge Police Department
  • Colorado Bureau of Investigation
  • Keenesburg Police Department
  • Kit Carson County Emergency Management
  • Brighton Police Department
  • DPD Special Ops
  • Golden Fire Department
  • Tri-County Volunteer Fire Department
  • Eagle County Emergency Management
  • Mesa County Sheriff

One map, built for the job

Your responders work in CloudTAK, the app for web, iPhone and Android. COTAK is the secure statewide system behind it that connects every agency. Teams on ATAK, iTAK and WinTAK connect too.

See your team live in CloudTAK

Open it on a phone or in a browser. Everyone shows up on the same map, updated in real time.

CloudTAK map view with team members shown as green dots along shared routes

Work across agencies

Shared channels put neighboring departments on one picture, like patching radio channels.

20+

Statewide feeds built in

Aircraft, 800+ CDOT cameras, stream gauges, wildfire dispatch and CAD.

A wildland firefighter in a yellow shirt using a phone in the field

From request to on the map

  1. 1

    Request access

    Ask for COTAK for your agency.

  2. 2

    Manage your agency

    Set up your admins, channels and data feeds.

  3. 3

    Add your responders

    Invite the people on your team.

  4. 4

    Operate on CloudTAK

    Open CloudTAK on a phone or the web and go.

Latest news

Introducing the Self Serve Channels Tool

Channels and data

Join or leave read-only channels for open statewide data, like aircraft over Colorado and USGS stream gauges, right from your COTAK account.

New Basemaps Added to CloudTAK

CloudTAK

CloudTAK now has a dark mode and new basemaps, including the Commander map and the COTREX trails and topo map.

2026 COTAK Summit Wrap-Up

Events

More than 150 public safety professionals met at the first COTAK Summit to share what works in the field and build relationships across agencies.

Still wondering?

The help center, FAQs and the rest of cotak.gov will be back once security patching is complete.

Check the status page
Is my agency already on COTAK?

Check with your agency administrator, or open a support ticket and we will look it up for you.

Do responders need to buy a device?

No. CloudTAK runs in a web browser and on the phone you already carry, and the TAK apps are free downloads.

Does it work without cell service?

COTAK needs only a weak cell signal. Where there is none, satellite-to-phone service, mesh radios or Starlink can carry the connection.

What happens to location data after an incident?

Location history is kept according to the COTAK data retention policy, which signed-in users can read on cotak.gov.