Town of Newtown

Western 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

Newtown Police Department

Newtown · 2 deployments

Body-worn & dashcam

The Newtown Police Department received a state body-worn camera grant of $69,434 in 2019.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): State of Connecticut, Office of Policy and ManagementCT NBC

Drones / UAS Vendor: DJI

The Newtown Police Department operates one DJI Phantom drone as of 2018, 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.newtownbee.com

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