Town of Wakefield

Middlesex County · Massachusetts

2 Deployments on record
1 Agencies
2 Technology categories

Technology presence

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

Wakefield Police Department

Wakefield · 2 deployments · on UnGovr: Town of Wakefield

ALPR Vendor: ELSAG

The Wakefield Police Department acquired its first automated license plate reader in 2009.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Wakefield Police DepartmentELSAG

Body-worn & dashcam

The Wakefield Police Department received $100,000 from the Bureau of Justice Assistance to purchase 50 body-worn cameras through the 2022 Small, Rural, Tribal BWC Microgrant program. On December 30, 2021 the Massachusetts Governor announced an award of $74,712 to the Wakefield Police Department for its body-worn camera program.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Small, Rural, and Tribal Body-Worn Camera microgrant grantee listMassachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security

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