Rockwall County

County record. Includes every city and agency within Rockwall County.

4 Deployments on record

3 Agencies

3 Technology categories

Technology presence

ALPR · 1 Fixed cameras & RTCC · none on record Face recognition · none on record Drones / UAS · 1 Gunshot detection · none on record Body-worn & dashcam · 2 Doorbell & camera registry · none on record Cell-site simulators · none on record Predictive policing · none on record Social-media monitoring · none on record

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

Rockwall Police Department

Rockwall · 2 deployments · last documented Jul 2025 · on UnGovr: City of Rockwall

ALPR Vendor: Flock Safety

The Rockwall Police Department has installed 14 Flock Safety automated license plate readers, according to data obtained in July 2025.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Muckrock

Body-worn & dashcam Vendor: Getac

In 2017, the Rockwall Police Department received a grant from the governor of Texas to outfit every patrol officer with body-worn cameras. In 2018, RPD switched from Coban to GETAC-brand cameras. The city's 2020 budget included $47,000 for GETAC-brand BWCs.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of Rockwall City of Rockwall

Royse City Police Department

Royse City · 1 deployment · last documented Jan 2020 · on UnGovr: City of Royse City

Body-worn & dashcam

The Royse City Police Department has used body-worn cameras since at least 2016.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CBSNews

Heath Department of Public Safety

Heath · 1 deployment · last documented Jan 2020 · on UnGovr: City of Heath

Drones / UAS Vendor: DJI

The Heath Department of Public Safety operates one DJI Phantom drone as of 2017, 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 College blueribbonnews.com

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