City of East Providence

Providence County · Rhode Island

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 · 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

East Providence Police Department

East Providence · 3 deployments · on UnGovr: City of East Providence

ALPR Vendor: Flock Safety

As of April 2024, the East Providence Police Department operates 14 Flock Safety automated license plate readers. The agency stores ALPR data for 30 days.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Flock SafetyThe News & ObserverThe News & Observer

Body-worn & dashcam

In October 2022, the state awarded $16 million to 42 local and state police departments to equip 1,773 officers with body-worn cameras, including $577,500 to the East Providence Police Department for 66 cameras.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Rhode Island Attorney General's OfficeRhode Island Attorney General's Office

Drones / UAS

The East Providence Police Department uses drones.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WLNE ABC 6

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