Chambers County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Chambers 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
Chambers County Sheriff’s Office
The Chambers County Sheriff’s Office has 34 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of December 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention AuthorityBaytown Sun
Mont Belvieu Police Department
The Mont Belvieu Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Caldwell County
Chambers County Sheriff's Office
Chambers County spent $41,000 on drones in 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Commissioners Court ofChambers County
The Chambers County Sheriff's Office purchased 43 Coban body-worn cameras in 2017.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Baytown SunChambers County Sheriff's Office Facebook page
Barbers Hill Independent School District Police Department
The Barbers Hill Independent School District Board of Trustees in Texas agreed to purchase Anyvision face recognition software in 2019 to be used at 32 entrances throughout the district.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Baytown Sun
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026