Town of New Haven
South Central Connecticut Planning Region · Connecticut
Technology presence
What these categories mean
- ALPR
- Automated license plate readers (ALPR): camera systems that automatically capture, read, and log vehicle license plates with location and time, producing a searchable record of vehicle movements.
- Fixed cameras & RTCC
- Agency-operated fixed video cameras and the real-time crime centers (RTCC) that aggregate live and recorded feeds for monitoring. Extends the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Atlas, which enumerates real-time crime centers and camera registries but not standalone fixed-camera estates.
- Face recognition
- Software that matches faces in images or video against a reference database to identify or verify individuals.
- Drones / UAS
- Uncrewed aerial systems (UAS), commonly called drones, operated by an agency for overhead observation, imaging, or sensing.
- Gunshot detection
- Networks of acoustic sensors that detect and locate suspected gunfire and alert an agency.
- Body-worn & dashcam
- Officer body-worn and in-vehicle dashboard cameras that record encounters; public access to the footage is frequently restricted.
- Doorbell & camera registry
- Programs that give an agency access to privately owned camera footage: doorbell-camera partnerships, citizen camera registries, and private-camera integration platforms.
- Cell-site simulators
- Devices that mimic cell towers to locate or identify nearby mobile phones. They are often called Stingrays, or IMSI catchers after the international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) number that identifies each phone on a network. Adjacent: communications surveillance outside the visual/sensor core.
- Predictive policing
- Software that forecasts where crime may occur or who may be involved, to direct policing. Adjacent: analytics rather than a sensing deployment.
- Social-media monitoring
- Tools that collect and analyze public social-media activity for an agency. Adjacent: open-source/communications monitoring outside the visual/sensor core.
The record, by agency
New Haven Police Department
The New Haven Police Department uses Axon Air drones. The agency received approval to purchase two drones for $15,000 in 2022.
The New Haven Police Department is building a real-time crime center as of 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Darien Times
The New Haven Police Department has received both state and federal grants for body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): State of Connecticut, Office of Policy and ManagementCT NBCU.S Department of Justice
The New Haven Police Department expanded its use of ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology in 2016 and spends $220,000 a year on the technology. In February 2022, the City decided to enter into a four-year, $1.68-million agreement to expand its use of ShotSpotter.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Haven RegisterNBC ConnecticutCT Post
The New Haven Police Department used automated license plate readers, according to a 2014 report.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Haven Register
The New Haven Police Department maintains a camera registry via Axon.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Axon
Southern Connecticut State University Police Department
The Southern Connectictut state University Police Department received a state body-worn camera grant of $56,968 in 2017.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): State of Connecticut, Office of Policy and ManagementCT NBC
University of New Haven Police Department
The University of New Haven 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
Yale University Police Department
The Yale University 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
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026