Travis County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Travis 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.
- Fusion & investigative platforms
- Third-party platforms that fuse data across sources, sometimes including other surveillance feeds, for law-enforcement search and analysis, sold or licensed to multiple agencies rather than built by any one of them: examples include Palantir, Peregrine Systems, C3.ai, and SoundThinking's CrimeTracer (formerly Coplink X). Adjacent: an analytics layer that sits above the surveillance feeds this site otherwise tracks, rather than a sensing deployment of its own.
The record, by agency
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Bee Cave Police Department
The Bee Cave Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers, according to data obtained in July 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Muckrock
The Bee Cave Police Department has used drones as first responders.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): DroneLifeFox7 AustinAustin American-Statesman
Manor Police Department
The Manor Police Department has installed 10 Flock Safety automated license plate readers, according to data obtained in July 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Muckrock
Lakeway Police Department
12 cameras measured on the agency's Flock Safety transparency portal, via UnGovr, as of August 2026.
The Lakeway Police Department operates eight Flock Safety automated license plate readers and other cameras as of June 2025. The agency stores ALPR data for 30 days.
The Lakeway Police Department was the first police department in Texas to use body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KXANCity of Lakeway
Austin Police Department
The Austin Police Department uses face recognition software.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): ID Tech Wire
The Austin Police Department entered a contract for LexisNexis's Accurint Virtual Crime Center investigative platform in May 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): AustinCity of Austin
The Austin Police Department started its drone program in 2019. As of late 2021, the agency has 16 DJI Mavics and one Skydio drone.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Drone Life
The Austin Police Department has operated a real-time crime center since 2010. The RTCC cost about $750,000 and was paid for without city funds through a federal grant. The RTCC accesses a network of 1000 H.A.L.O., or High Activity Location Observation, surveillance cameras throughout the city.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Strategic Partnerships Inc.KVUECity of Austin official website
The U.S. Department of Justice awarded $750,000 to the Austin Police Department in 2016 as part of the Bureau of Justice Assistance's body-worn camera grant program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): U.S Department of Justice
The Austin Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Data Austin Texas
Texas Department of Public Safety
The Texas Department of Public Safety signed a five-year contract with Clearview AI that lasts through 2029. The agency also purchased face recognition software from Motorola Solutions.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): MuckRockTexas Department of Public SafetyTexas Department of Public Safety
The Texas Department of Public Safety spent $1.525 million for license plate reader and face recognition technology over a five-year term, starting in 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Texas Department of Public SafetyTexas Department of Public SafetyTexas Department of Motor Vehicles
The Texas Department of Public Safety spent $13 million on Axon body-worn cameras in 2025. The agency also spent $1.5 million on Motorola body-worn cameras over a four-year term.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Texas Department of Public Safety
The Texas Department of Public Safety spent approximately $5 million during a five-year contract for Penlink's third-party investigative platform.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Texas Department of Public Safety
The Texas Department of Public Safety entered into a five year contract for the LexisNexis Accurint Virtual Crime Center investigative platform on 05/10/2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Texas Department of Public Safety usees the LexisNexis Accurint Virtual Crime Center platformTexas Department of Public SafetuyHigherGov
The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) maintains the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles photo repository, which includes a face recognition system established by state statute. The statute also requires that DPS use the face recognition system to aid law enforcement agencies in conducting criminal investigations. The DPS also has an agreement to respond to face recognition requests from FBI’s FACE Services.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Electronic Frontier FoundationGovernment Accountability Office
The Texas Department of Public Safety operates 17 Aeryon Labs drones as of 2016, 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 CollegeLink Compiled by Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard CollegeCenter for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Texas Department of Public Safety acquired cell-site simulator technology in 2014, according data compiled by Kevin Collier for Vocativ.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): VocativKevin CollierAustin Chronicle
West Lake Hills Police Department
The West Lake Hills Police Department entered a two-year contract with Insight Public Sector, a reseller of Flock products, totaling $59,850.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Community Impact
Texas University Systems Police Department
The Texas University Systems 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
Sunset Valley Police Department
The Sunset Valley Police Department received $10,700 from the Bureau of Justice Assistance to purchase 10 body-worn cameras through the 2022 Small, Rural, Tribal BWC Microgrant program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Small, Rural, and Tribal Body-Worn Camera microgrant grantee list
The Sun Valley City Council approved "an agreement with Flock Safety for a public surveillance camera program for an amount not to exceed $27,500" in November 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Sunset Valley Council Minutes
University of Texas Austin Police Department
The University of Texas Austin Police Department purchased about 80 Axon body-worn cameras in 2017.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Inside Higher EdUT NewsUT Austin Police Facebook page
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Law Enforcement Division
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Law Enforcement Division operates one DJI Inspire drone as of 2018, 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 CollegeLink Compiled by Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard CollegeCenter for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department purchased Wolfcom body-worn cameras in 2013.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Facebookfinancial report from 2013 states wolfcom bought cameras
Austin Independent School District Police Department
Austin ISD Police Department acquired 89 new Axon body-worn cameras in 2019 and had used them for nearly 10 years prior to that.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KVUE ABC
Pflugerville Police Department
The Pflugerville Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of Pflugerville
City of Jonestown
Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.
Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory
City of Lago Vista
Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.
Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory
City of Mustang Ridge
Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.
Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory
City of Rollingwood
Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.
Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory
Camera counts measured independently of this record
Flock Safety publishes a live camera count on each agency's own transparency portal. One agency has a portal we read directly, with no deployment documented above for that technology. Each count below is measured, dated, and cited to the portal itself, via UnGovr, rather than a claim about what the documented record establishes.
| Agency | Technology | Cameras | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of Pflugerville | ALPR | 32 | August 2026 | Flock Safety transparency portal |
Sources: Flock Safety transparency portals · FBI Crime Data Explorer · EFF Atlas of Surveillance