City of Newton
Middlesex County · Massachusetts
1
Deployments on record
1
Agencies
1
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 · none on record
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
Newton Police Department
Drones / UAS
Vendor: DJI
The Newton Police Department has had DJI drones since 2022, and there were eight licensed pilots as of 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Fig City News
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026