County record · Florida

Walton County

5 Deployments on record

2 Agencies

4 Technology categories

Technology presence

ALPR · 2 Fixed cameras & RTCC · none on record Face recognition · 1 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

Walton County Sheriff's Office

Defuniak Springs · 4 deployments · on UnGovr: Walton County

ALPR Vendor: Flock Safety

The Walton County Sheriff's Office operates 106 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department

Body-worn & dashcam

The Walton County Sheriff's Office 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

Drones / UAS

The Walton County Sheriff's Office has operated at least one drone since about 2018.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Florida Sheriffs Association Governing Wear News ABC 3

Face recognition Vendor: Idemia

The Walton 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 Sentinel Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law Pinellas County Sheriff's Office

Defuniak Springs Police Department

Defuniak Springs · 1 deployment · on UnGovr: City of DeFuniak Springs

ALPR Vendor: Flock Safety

The Defuniak Springs Police Department operates 10 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department

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