County record · Hawaii

Kauai County

3 Deployments on record

3 Agencies

3 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 · 1 Cell-site simulators · none on record Predictive policing · none on record Social-media monitoring · none on record

The record, by agency

Kaua'i Police Department

Lihue · 1 deployment

Body-worn & dashcam Vendor: Axon

The Kaua‘i County Police Department uses Axon body-worn cameras. The agency piloted its body-worn camera program in late 2014 and officially implemented the program in June 2015.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Kauai Police Department Facebook Honolulu Civil Beat Honolulu Civil Beat

Kauai County Police Department

Līhu‘e · 1 deployment · on UnGovr: Kauai 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

Kauai Police Department

Lihue · 1 deployment · on UnGovr: Kauai County

Doorbell & camera registry Vendor: Motorola

The Kaua‘i Police Department has a camera registry program.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): County of Kaua‘i Kauai County Police Department City Protect

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