County record · Texas

Hardin County

2 Deployments on record

2 Agencies

2 Technology categories

Technology presence

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

Hardin County Sheriff’s Office

Kountze · 1 deployment

ALPR Vendor: Flock Safety

The Hardin County Sheriff’s Office received $20,000 to purchase five Flock Safety automated license plate readers in March 2025.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Examiner

Silsbee Police Department

Silsbee · 1 deployment · on UnGovr: City of Silsbee

Body-worn & dashcam

The Silsbee Police Department received $14,973 towards its body-worn camera program in October 2024 from the Texas Governor's Public Safety Office.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Texas Office of the Governor

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