Hawaii County

County record. Includes every city and agency within Hawaii County.

2 Deployments on record

2 Agencies

2 Technology categories

Technology presence

ALPR · none on record Fixed cameras & RTCC · none on record Face recognition · 1 Drones / UAS · none on record 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

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

Hawaii Police Department

Hilo · 1 deployment · last documented Oct 2023 · on UnGovr: Hawaii County

Body-worn & dashcam Vendor: Axon

The Hawaii Police Department started using body-worn cameras in 2020.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Hawaii Police Department Hawaii Police Department YouTube

Hawaii County Police Department

Hilo · 1 deployment · last documented Jan 2016 · on UnGovr: Hawaii County

Face recognition Vendor: Idemia

The Honolulu Police Department and the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center began using face recognition technology in 2014, and expanded its use through all Hawaiian counties in 2015.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Yahoo Finance Georgetown University

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