Davidson County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Davidson 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
Goodlettsville Police Department
The Goodlettsville Police Department operates 16 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The Goodlettsville Police Department acquired Axon body-worn cameras in 2017.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WKRNCity of Goodlettsville
Nashville International Airport Police Department
The Nashville International Airport Police Department operates 11 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Metropolitan Nashville Police Department
The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department utilizes the Fusus camera registry and video integration system.
As of August 2021, the Metro Nashville Police Department equipped 1,222 active employees with WatchGuard body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of NashvilleMetro Nashville Police Department
The Nashville Police Department has deployed a ShotSpotter gunshot detection system and committed $800,000 to the program's expansion in its 2022-2023 budget.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of NashvilleThe Enterprise
The Metro Nashville Police Department operates one drone as of 2020, according to data compiled by the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard Collegewww.faa.gov
Tennessee Division of Motor Vehicles
The Tennessee Division of Motor Vehicles responds to face recognition requests from FBI FACE Services Unit.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Electronic Frontier FoundationGovernment Accountability Office
Belle Meade Police Department
The Belle Meade Police Department uses automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Tennessean
Vanderbilt University Police Department
Vanderbilt University Public Safety department included a comprehensive body-worn camera program in its 2020-2022 plan.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Vanderbilt University Police DepartmentVanderbilt University Public Safety
Davidson County Sheriff's Office
The Davidson County Sheriff's Office has access to a predictive analytics system developed by IBM to identify locations where vehicle crashes and DUIs are likely to occur. All 95 county sheriffs in the state access the system, which is managed by the Tennessee Highway Patrol.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland SecurityTennessee Department of Safety and Homeland SecurityFox17
Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security
The Tennessee Highway Patrol and the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security manage a predictive analytics system created by IBM to identify locations where vehicle crashes and DUIs are likely to occur. It is shared with all 95 county sheriffs in the state.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland SecurityTennessee Department of Safety and Homeland SecurityFox17
Tennessee Highway Patrol
The Tennessee Highway Patrol and the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security manage a predictive analytics system created by IBM to identify locations where vehicle crashes and DUIs are likely to occur. It is shared with all 95 county sheriffs in the state.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland SecurityTennessee Department of Safety and Homeland SecurityFox17
Tennessee Department Of Safety & Homeland Security
The Tennessee Department Of Safety & Homeland Security installed 24 automated license plate reader systems in 2010.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Annual ReportAnnual ReportNews
Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency Law Enforcement
Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency Law Enforcement received a $339,850 US Bureau of Justice Assistance grant in 2022 for its body-worn camera program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Bureau of Justice Assistance, US Department of Justice
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026