City of Lawrence

Essex County · Massachusetts

2 Deployments on record
1 Agencies
2 Technology categories

Technology presence

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

Lawrence Police Department

Lawrence · 2 deployments · on UnGovr: City of Lawrence

Body-worn & dashcam

The Lawrence Police Department received a 2018 Bureau of Justice Assistance of $112,835 to purchase body-worn cameras and received another $43,910 from the State of Massachusetts to fund its program.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): U.S Department of JusticeMassachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and SecurityState of Massachusetts

Drones / UAS

The Lawrence Police Department has had a drone unit since 2019.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of LawrenceCity of Lawrence

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