Guadalupe County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Guadalupe 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
Cibolo Police Department
The Cibolo Police Department has 11 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of January 2025. The Texas Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Authority gave the Cibolo Police Department a grant to purchase automated license plate readers in 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention AuthorityCommunity Impact
Schertz Police Department
The Schertz 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 Schertz Police Department began using WatchGuard body-worn cameras in 2018, paid for with a $27,000 donation from Santikos Entertainment.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of SchertzSan Antonio Express-News
Seguin Fire Department
The Seguin Fire 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
Guadalupe County Sheriff's Office
The Guadalupe County Sheriff's Office uses WatchGuard body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Guadalupe County Sheriff's Office
Guadalupe County Constables
The Guadalupe County Constables use Patrol Eyes body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Guadalupe County Constable
Selma Police Department
The Selma Police Department uses WatchGuard body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of SelmaSelma Police Department Facebook page
Seguin Police Department
The Seguin Police Department purchased new body-worn cameras in 2019.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Seguin Today
The Seguin Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of Seguin
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026