City of Somerville

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

Somerville Police Department

Somerville · 3 deployments · on UnGovr: City of Somerville

ALPR Vendor: ELSAG

The Somerville Police Department has automated license plate readers in operation since 2015.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Somerville Police DepartmentCity of SomervilleELSAG

Body-worn & dashcam

The Somerville Police Department has body-worn cameras.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Tufts DailyCity of Somerville

Gunshot detection Vendor: ShotSpotter

The Somerville Police Department uses ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): ShotspotterSomerville Police Department

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