Bexar County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Bexar 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
Converse Police Department
The Converse Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers, according to data obtained in July 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Muckrock
The Converse Police Department uses WatchGuard body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Converse Police Department Facebook pageConverse Police Department
The Converse Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of Converse
San Antonio Police Department
The San Antonio Police Department operates 20 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of July 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Muckrock
As of September 2019, 2,059 Axon body-worn cameras were assigned to San Antonio Police Department officers. The agency fully implemented its body-worn camera program in 2017.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): San Antonio GovSan Diego Police Department FacebookHouston Chronicle
The San Antonio Police Department uses drones.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): News4SASan Antonio Express News
Castle Hills Police Department
The Castle Hills Police Department has installed 25 Flock Safety automated license plate readers, according to data obtained in July 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Muckrock
Live Oak Police Department
The Live Oak Police Department has installed 27 Flock Safety automated license plate readers, according to data obtained in July 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Muckrock
Selma Police Department
The Selma Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers, according to data obtained in July 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Muckrock
Universal City Police Department
The Universal City Police Department has 12 Flock Safety automated license plate readers and other cameras as of July 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Flock Safety
The Universal City Police Department received $31,985 towards its body-worn camera program in September 2024 from the Texas Governor's Public Safety Office.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Texas Office of the Governor
The Universal City Police Department has one drone as of 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KSAT 12
Grey Forest Police Department
The Grey Forest Police Department received $14,971 towards its body-worn camera program in September 2024 from the Texas Governor's Public Safety Office.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Texas Office of the Governor
Hollywood Park Police Department
The Hollywood Park Police Department received $19,819 towards its body-worn camera program in September 2024 from the Texas Governor's Public Safety Office.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Texas Office of the Governor
Balcones Heights Police Department
The Texas Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Authority gave the Balcones Heights Police Department a grant to purchase automated license plate readers in 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Authority
The U.S. Department of Justice awarded $32,530 to the Balcones Heights Police Department in 2018 as part of the Bureau of Justice Assistance's body-worn camera grant program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): U.S Department of Justice
Shavano Park Police Department
The Shavano Park Police Department had been using Coptrax body-worn cameras, but following various problems, the agency was seeking a new vendor in 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Shavano ParkCity of Shavano Park Facebook page
University of Texas at San Antonio Police Department
The UTSA Police Department uses body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): UTSA Police Facebook page
Harlandale Independent School District Police Department
Harlandale ISD Police Department officers wear body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Harlandale ISD Facebook
Bexar County Sheriff's Office
The Bexar County Sheriff's Office operates four DJI drones as of 2018, 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 Collegefoxsanantonio.comnews4sanantonio.com
The Bexar County Sheriff's Office acquired 550 Axon body-worn cameras in 2019, paid for in part with a $765,000 U.S. Department of Justice grant.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Spectrum Local NewsSan Antonio Express NewsKSAT
The Bexar County Sheriff's Office began using NEC face recognition technology in 2014, at an initial cost of $3.4 million.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): MySanAntonio
The Bexar County Sheriff's Office's SafeCam program is a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Bexar County
Alamo Heights Police Department
The Alamo Heights Police Department has been using body-worn cameras since at least 2012.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Alamo Heights Police DepartmentKens5 News
The Alamo Heights Police Department scanned 243,848 license plates in 2019 using Vigilant Solutions automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): MuckRock
University of Texas System Police - Health Science Center San Antonio
The University of Texas System Police at the Health Science Center San Antonio purchased body-worn Cameras in 2013.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Von Ormy Police Department
The Texas Governor's Public Safety Office provided the city of Von Ormy with $47,608 for vehicle and body cameras in 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Office of the Governor, Texas
Windcrest Police Department
The Windcrest Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Windcrest 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