Nueces County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Nueces 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
Corpus Christi Police Department
The Corpus Christi Police Department operates two DJI drones as of 2014, according to data compiled by the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KIII NewsCenter for the Study of the Drone at Bard Collegewww.kristv.com
The Corpus Christi Police Department has 178 body-worn cameras as of May 2019.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Caller TimesU.S Department of Justice
Bishop Police Department
The Bishop Police Department received $49,880 towards its body-worn camera program in September 2024 from the Texas Governor's Public Safety Office.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Texas Office of the Governor
Port of Corpus Christi Police Department
The Port of Corpus Christi 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
Port Aransas Police Department
The Texas Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Authority gave the Port Aransas Police Department a grant to purchase automated license plate readers in 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Authority
Robstown Police Department
The Texas Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Authority gave the Robstown Police Department a grant to purchase automated license plate readers in 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Authority
Corpus Christi ISD Police Department
Corpus Christi ISD Police Department received a Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant of $18,930.12 for body-worn cameras and a server in 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Office of the Governor, Texas
Nueces County Sheriff's Office
The Nueces County Sheriff's Office operates one DJI Inspire drone as of 2015, 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.kristv.com
The Nueces County Sheriff's Office purchased 25 body-worn cameras in April 2017 with a grant from the Office of the Governor's Criminal Justice Division
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Caller Times
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Police Department
The Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Police Department uses automated license plate readers for parking enforcement.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Texas A & M University
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026