Town of Norwalk
Western 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
Norwalk Police Department
The Norwalk Police Department has drones.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Norwalk Police Department InstagramCity of Norwalk
In May 2022, the State Bond Commission awarded the Norwalk Police Department $100,187 for body-worn cameras, dash cameras, and video storage devices. in 2019, the agency had received a $204,488 body-worn camera grant.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Connecticut State Bond CommissionCT NBCState of Connecticut, Office of Policy and Management
The Norwalk Police Department entered into a two-year contract with Flock Safety for automated license plate readers, beginning August 2025. Previously, the agency acquired ELSAG license plate readers in 2009 and systems from Vigilant Solutions, which they used to aid Immigration and Customs Enforcement in 2019.
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026