Montgomery County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Montgomery 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
Splendora Police Department
The Splendora Police Department operates four Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The Splendora 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.youtube.com
Montgomery County Sheriff's Office
The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers, according to data obtained in July 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): MuckrockHouston Chronicle
Montgomery County Sheriff's Office
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Hello Woodlands NewsDronelife
Montgomery County Sheriff's Office has used Clearview A.I.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Clearview AI
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office built a real-time crime center powered by Motorola Solutions in 2020.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Motorola Solutions YouTubeThe CourierThe Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office
Montgomery County Sheriff's Office deployed 30 body-worn cameras in November of 2018.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Times Herald
The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras through Motorola Solutions' CityProtect platform.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CityProtect
Montgomery Police Department
The Montgomery Police Department has installed 11 Flock Safety automated license plate readers, according to data obtained in July 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Muckrock
The Montgomery Police Department received $27,330 towards its body-worn camera program in November 2024 from the Texas Governor's Public Safety Office.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Texas Office of the Governor
Montgomery ISD Police Department
The Montgomery ISD Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers, according to data obtained in July 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Muckrock
Roman Forest Police Department
The Roman Forest Police Department has installed 17 Flock Safety automated license plate readers, according to data obtained in July 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Muckrock
Willis Police Department
The Willis Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers, according to data obtained in July 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Muckrock
Montgomery County Fire Marshal
The Montgomery County Fire Marshal 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
Conroe Police Department
The Texas Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Authority gave the Conroe Police Department a grant to purchase automated license plate readers in 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Authority
The Conroe Police Department has used body-worn cameras since 2011.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Courier of Montgomery CountyConroe PD Facebook PageCity of Conroe
Shenandoah Police Department
The Shenandoah Police Department uses body-worn camera
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KHOU 11Shenandoah City CouncilCity of Shenandoah
The Shenandoah Police Department began using automated license plate readers in 2018.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of Shenandoah, TX
Montgomery County Constables Precinct 4
The Montgomery County Constables Precinct 4 purchased Clearview AI face recognition licenses in 2019.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Montgomery County
Over half of the Montgomery County Constables Precinct 4 staff use Axon body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Courier of Montgomery County
Splendora Independent School District Police Department
The Splendora ISD Police Department received seven body-worn cameras in 2018.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Blue Bonnet NewsKHOU
Oak Ridge North Police Department
Oak Ridge North Police Department acquired body-worn cameras for at least some of its officers in 2017.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Houston ChronicleCity of Oak Ridge North
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026