Fort Bend County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Fort Bend 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
Richmond Police Department
The Richmond Police Department operates two Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Arcola Police Department
The Arcola Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers, according to data obtained in July 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Muckrock
Rosenberg Police Department
The Rosenberg Police Department submitted a policy related to drones and the use of force to the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Texas Commission On Law Enforcement
The Rosenberg Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Caldwell County
Sugarland Police Department
The Sugarland Police Department submitted a policy related to drones and the use of force to the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Texas Commission On Law Enforcement
Stafford Police Department
The Stafford Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Caldwell County
The Stafford Police Department maintains a camera registry.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Stafford Police Department
Fulshear Police Department
The Fulshear Police Department uses Axon body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KHOU 11Fulshear Police Department
The Fulshear Police Department began using Flock Safety automated license plate readers in 2020.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Community Impact
Sugar Land Police Department
The Sugar Land Police Department entered into a 5-year contract with Axon for 154 body-worn cameras in 2019.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Sugar Land SunSugar Land Police Department
The Sugar Land Police Department has used automated license plate readers since 2009 and acquired 74 stationary ALPRs in 2016.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Houston ChronicleCity of Sugar LandCity of Sugar Land
Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office
The Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office utilizes the Fusus real-time crime center platform.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office
The Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office operates an automated license plate reader program using Flock Safety cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): County Annual Report
The Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office utilizes the Fusus camera registry.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Fusus
Fort Bend Sheriff's Office
Fort Bend County purchased 650 body cameras from Axon in early 2022 in a 10-year deal worth more than $22 million.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Fort Bend StarKaty Times
Meadows Place Police Department
The Meadows Place Police Department received $1,125 from the Bureau of Justice Assistance to purchase 3 body-worn cameras through the 2022 Small, Rural, Tribal BWC Microgrant program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Small, Rural, and Tribal Body-Worn Camera microgrant grantee list
The Meadows Place received $37,889.00 for an automated license plate reader program in 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Texas Office of Governor Public Safety Office
Houston Police Department
The Houston Police Department uses drones.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Electronic Frontier FoundationYoutube | News agency is KHOUUniversity of Texas
Fort Bent County Sheriff's Office
The Fort Bent County Sheriff's Office operates two 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 Collegewww.fortbendcountytx.gov
Missouri City Police Department
The Missouri City Police Department operates two DJI drones as of 2019, 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.missouricitytx.gov
The Missouri City Police Department began the pilot of its ongoing body camera program in 2015.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): ABC13Houston Chronicle
The Missouri City Police Department shared data collected using Vigilant Solutions automated license plate readers with 591 other law enforcement agencies, according to documents produced in 2018.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): MuckRock
The Missouri City Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Missouri City Texas
Fort Bend Independent School District Police Department
The Fort Bend Independent School District Police Department paid $245,000 for 57 Axon body-worn cameras in November 2016.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KHOU 11
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026