Brazos County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Brazos 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
College Station Police Department
The College Station Police Department has DJI drones.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of College StationCity of College Station
The College Station police department began using body-worn cameras in 2014.
The College Station Police Department scanned 3,665,070 license plates in 2019 using Vigilant Solutions automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): MuckRock
Bryan Police Department
The Bryan Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Caldwell County
The Bryan Police Department purchased 143 body-worn cameras in 2015.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KAGS
The Bryan Police Department has a drone unit.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of Bryan
Brazos County Sheriff's Office
The Brazos County Sheriff's Office uses automated license plate reader trailers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Brazos CountyTexas Office of Governor Public Safety OfficeBrazos County
As of July 2023, the Brazos County Sheriff's Office was creating a real-time crime center.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): BKBTXBrazos County
The Brazos County Sheriff's Office operates one drone 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 Collegewww.faa.gov
As of 2016, the Brazos County Sheriff's Office distribued 49 body-worn cameras among its patrol, courthouse security, crisis intervention team, and jail transport personnel.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): County MagazineKBTX News and Media
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026