Anne Arundel County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Anne Arundel County.
Technology presence
What these categories mean
- ALPR
- Automated license plate readers (ALPR): camera systems that automatically capture, read, and log vehicle license plates with location and time, producing a searchable record of vehicle movements.
- Fixed cameras & RTCC
- Agency-operated fixed video cameras and the real-time crime centers (RTCC) that aggregate live and recorded feeds for monitoring. Extends the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Atlas, which enumerates real-time crime centers and camera registries but not standalone fixed-camera estates.
- Face recognition
- Software that matches faces in images or video against a reference database to identify or verify individuals.
- Drones / UAS
- Uncrewed aerial systems (UAS), commonly called drones, operated by an agency for overhead observation, imaging, or sensing.
- Gunshot detection
- Networks of acoustic sensors that detect and locate suspected gunfire and alert an agency.
- Body-worn & dashcam
- Officer body-worn and in-vehicle dashboard cameras that record encounters; public access to the footage is frequently restricted.
- Doorbell & camera registry
- Programs that give an agency access to privately owned camera footage: doorbell-camera partnerships, citizen camera registries, and private-camera integration platforms.
- Cell-site simulators
- Devices that mimic cell towers to locate or identify nearby mobile phones. They are often called Stingrays, or IMSI catchers after the international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) number that identifies each phone on a network. Adjacent: communications surveillance outside the visual/sensor core.
- Predictive policing
- Software that forecasts where crime may occur or who may be involved, to direct policing. Adjacent: analytics rather than a sensing deployment.
- Social-media monitoring
- Tools that collect and analyze public social-media activity for an agency. Adjacent: open-source/communications monitoring outside the visual/sensor core.
The record, by agency
Crofton Police Department
The Crofton Police Department uses Axon body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WMAR 2 ABC NewsCrofton Police Department Facebook
Annapolis Police Department
The Annapolis Police Department uses Axon body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Annapolis Police Department
In 2018, the Annapolice Police Department scanned 3,738,063 license plates using automated license plate readers. The Annapolis police has five fixed ALPR units and three mobile ALPR units.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Maryland House Judiciary Committee DisclosureCapital News Service
The Annapolis Police Department acquired cell-site simulator technology in 2010, according data compiled by Kevin Collier for Vocativ.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): VocativKevin CollierCapital News Service
Anne Arundel County Sheriff's Office
The Anne Arundel County Sheriff's Office purchased a cell-site simulator for $546,160 from KeyW, which has been acquired by Jacobs Technology. Previously, the sheriff had a Stingray II cell-site simulator from Harris Corp.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Anne Arundel Sheriff's DepartmentCapital News ServiceVocativ
The Anne Arundel County Police Department uses Axon body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Energetics Technology Center Report
Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration
Maryland's Motor Vehicle Administration's face recognition database is directly accessible by the FBI. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents can also access the database.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Electronic Frontier FoundationGovernment Accountability Office
Anne Arundel County Police Department
In 2018, the Anne Arundel County Police Department scanned 50,907,389 license plates using automated license plate readers. The agency operates ALPR systems at 9 fixed locations with 36 individual cameras and 29 mobile units.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Maryland House Judiciary Committee DisclosureMaryland House Judiciary Committee DisclosureCapital News Service
The Maryland State Police and police departments across the Baltimore region — including Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Howard and Harford counties — all told the Baltimore Sun that they access the Maryland Image Repository System, which includes face recognition.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Baltimore Sun
The Anne Arundel Police Department use Axon Body 3 cameras for most officers. The Quick Response Team (SWAT) uses Axon Flex 2 cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Anne Arundel County Website
The Anne Arundel County Police Department uses Axon's Fusus camera registry.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Anne Arundle County
Maryland State Police
The Maryland State Police and police departments across the Baltimore region — including Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Howard and Harford counties — all told the Baltimore Sun that they access the Maryland Image Repository System, which includes face recognition.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Baltimore Sun
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026