County record · Virginia

Arlington County

3 Deployments on record

2 Agencies

3 Technology categories

Technology presence

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

Arlington County Police Department

Arlington · 2 deployments · on UnGovr: Arlington County

ALPR Vendor: Flock Safety

The Arlington County Police Department has purchased Flock cameras and automated license plate readers.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): ARLnow

Body-worn & dashcam

The Arlington County Police Department began using body-worn cameras in December 2020.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Arlington County WTOP

U.S. Customs and Border Protection - Reagan National Airport

Arlington · 1 deployment

Face recognition

The Reagan National Airport is one of 18 airports where Customs and Border Protection is using face recognition technology as of March 2019. An executive order signed by Pres. Trump in 2019 requires Customs and Border Protection to install face recognition technology at the United States' top 20 airports by 2021.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Buzzfeed TechCrunch

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