Pasco County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Pasco 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
Pasco County Sheriff's Office
The Pasco County Sheriff's Office operates a drone program, which included adding an autonomous Skydio drone in 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Florida Sheriffs AssociationPasco County Sheriff's Facebook10/4/2022
According to the Tampa Bay Times, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office began using predictive policing techniques and technology in 2011.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Tampa Bay TimesTampa Bay TimesPasco County Sheriff's Office
Pasco County Sheriff's Department implemented an Axon body-worn camera program for $400,000 in the 2015, issuing every deputy in the county with one.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Florida Department of Law EnforcementPatchWUFT (NPR)
The Pasco County Sheriff’s Office Real-Time Crime Center is staffed by 10 crime analysts and a supervisor. According to the Pasco County Sheriff's Office, the RTCC analysts evaluate calls for service and access police databases and locational data.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pasco County Sheriff's OfficeWFLA
The Pasco County Sheriff's Office is one of more than 275 law enforcement agencies with access to the Face Analysis Comparison & Examination System (FACES), a face recognition program maintained by the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. Investigators may upload an image to search more than 25-million Florida driver's license photos and mugshots.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Orlando SentinelCenter on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown LawPinellas County Sheriff's Office
The Pasco County Sheriff's Office has five automated license plate readers as of 2018.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): 10 News
New Port Richey Police Department
The New Port Richey Police Department purchased 40 WatchGuard body-worn cameras for $260,000 in 2020.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Sun Coast NewsBay News 9
The New Port Richey Police Department is one of more than 275 law enforcement agencies with access to the Face Analysis Comparison & Examination System (FACES), a face recognition program maintained by the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. Investigators may upload an image to search more than 25-million Florida driver's license photos and mugshots.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Orlando SentinelCenter on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown LawPinellas County Sheriff's Office
The New Port Richey Police Department has two automated license plate readers as of 2018.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): 10 News
Dade City Police Department
The Dade City Police Department uses body-worn cameras, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement's 2019 Criminal Justice Agency Profile Report.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Florida Department of Law Enforcement
Zephyrhills Police Department
The Zephyrhills Police Department spent $30,000 to equip its entire police force with Axon body-worn camera in August 2018.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): ABC Action News
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026