Town of Portsmouth

Newport County · Rhode Island

2 Deployments on record
1 Agencies
2 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 · 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

Portsmouth Police Department

Portsmouth · 2 deployments · on UnGovr: Town of Portsmouth

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 $306,250 to the Portsmouth Police Department for 35 cameras.

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

Drones / UAS

The Portsmouth Police Department has drones.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Portsmouth Police Department FacebookPortsmouth 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