City of Cambridge

Middlesex County · Massachusetts

3 Deployments on record
1 Agencies
3 Technology categories

Technology presence

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

Cambridge Police Department

Cambridge · 3 deployments · on UnGovr: City of Cambridge

ALPR Vendor: Flock Safety

The Cambridge Police Department received city council approval to acquire 15 to 20 fixed automated license plate reader cameras in February 2025. The agency suspended use of the technology over data sharing practices in October 2025.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Harvard CrimsonCambridge MACBS News

Body-worn & dashcam

The Cambridge Police Department received a $243,689 grant from the state of Massachusetts for body-worn cameras in 2024.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security

Gunshot detection Vendor: ShotSpotter

The Cambridge Police Department began using Shotspotter gunshot detection technology in 2014.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Cambridge MA

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