County record · Virginia

Amherst County

4 Deployments on record

2 Agencies

3 Technology categories

Technology presence

ALPR · 2 Fixed cameras & RTCC · none on record Face recognition · none on record Drones / UAS · 1 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

Amherst County Sheriff's Office

Amherst · 3 deployments · on UnGovr: Amherst County

ALPR Vendor: Flock Safety

The Amherst County Sheriff's Office uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Flock Safety

Body-worn & dashcam

The Amherst County Sheriff's Office received $37,000 from the Bureau of Justice Assistance to purchase 40 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

Drones / UAS Vendor: DJI

The Amherst County Sheriff's Office operated two drones as of 2019.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WDBJ Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College www.wdbj7.com

Amherst Police Department

Amherst · 1 deployment · on UnGovr: Town of Amherst

ALPR

The Amherst Police Department uses automated license plate readers, according to 2024 data.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): MuckRock

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