Kent County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Kent County.
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
Seaford Police Department
The Seaford Police Department maintains a camera registry via Flock Safety.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Bay to Bay News
Delaware State Police
The Delaware State Police Department operated drones as of 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Delaware State PoliceDelaware State PoliceCenter for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Delaware State Police Department began using face recognition technology in 2016.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Government Site
The Delaware State Police first acquired cell-site simulator technology from Harris Corp. in 2010, according data compiled by Kevin Collier for Vocativ.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): VocativKevin Collierphp.delawareonline.com
Smyrna Police Department
The Smyrna Police Department received a grant for license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Bureau of Justice Assistance, US Department of Justice
The Smyrna Police Department purchased 80 body-worn cameras for $1,086,746 as part of a five-year deal with Axon in 2018.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): 11AliveThe Atlanta-Journal ConstitutionDelaware House Democrats website
Dover Police Department
The Dover Police Department operated drones as of 2020.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): DroneXLCenter for the Study of the Drone at Bard Collegeregistry.faa.gov
Delaware Department of Correction
The Delaware Department of Correction operates four DJI drones as of 2017, 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 Collegeregistry.faa.gov
Milford Police Department
The Milford Police Department implemented a body-worn camera program in 2017.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Milford City Council
Delaware State University Police Department
The Delaware State University Police DepartmentPolice Department uses body worn cameras, according to a Delaware House Democrats press release.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Delaware House Democrats website
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026