County record · Texas

Cooke County

4 Deployments on record

2 Agencies

3 Technology categories

Technology presence

ALPR · 1 Fixed cameras & RTCC · none on record Face recognition · none on record Drones / UAS · 1 Gunshot detection · none on record Body-worn & dashcam · 2 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

Cooke County Sheriff's Office

Gainesville · 3 deployments · on UnGovr: Cooke County

ALPR Vendor: Martel Electronics

The Cooke County Sheriff's Office purchased an automated license plate reader from Martel Electronics for $3,524 in 2018.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Cooke County

Body-worn & dashcam Vendor: WatchGuard

The Cooke County Sheriff's Office uses WatchGuard body-worn cameras.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Gainesville Register Gainesville Register

Drones / UAS Vendor: DJI

The Cooke County Sheriff's Office began using drones in 2019.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Facebook Cooke County Sheriff

Gainesville Police Department

Gainesville · 1 deployment · on UnGovr: City of Gainesville

Body-worn & dashcam Vendor: Coreforce

The Gainesville Police Department acquired BodyWorn body-worn cameras in 2018.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Government Technology

Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026