Town of Meriden

South Central Connecticut Planning Region · Connecticut

2 Deployments on record
1 Agencies
2 Technology categories

Technology presence

ALPR · none on record Fixed cameras & RTCC · none on record Face recognition · none on record Drones / UAS · 1 Gunshot detection · none on record Body-worn & dashcam · 1 Doorbell & camera registry · none on record Cell-site simulators · none on record Predictive policing · none on record Social-media monitoring · none on record

The record, by agency

Meriden Police Department

Meriden · 2 deployments

Body-worn & dashcam

The Meriden Police Department uses body-worn cameras, as required by state law, according to a 2022 report from NBC Connecticut.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CT NBCwww.datawrapper.de

Drones / UAS Vendor: DJI

The Meriden Police Department operates two DJI drones as of 2020, according to data compiled by the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard Collegewww.myrecordjournal.com

Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026