Chesapeake County

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

5 Deployments on record

1 Agencies

5 Technology categories

Technology presence

ALPR · 1 Fixed cameras & RTCC · 1 Face recognition · none on record Drones / UAS · 1 Gunshot detection · 1 Body-worn & dashcam · none on record Doorbell & camera registry · 1 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

Chesapeake Police Department

Chesapeake · 5 deployments · last documented Jul 2025 · on UnGovr: City of Chesapeake

Gunshot detection

The Chesapeake Police Department uses gunshot detection technology, according to 2024 data.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): MuckRock

ALPR Vendor: Flock Safety

The Chesapeake Police Department has 336 Flock Safety automated license plate readers and other cameras as of July 2025.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Flock Safety

Doorbell & camera registry Vendor: Flock Safety

The Chesapeake Police Department has a camera registry program that allows businesses to link their security cameras directly to the city’s real-time crime center.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): 13 News Now

Fixed cameras & RTCC

The Chesapeake Police Department operates a real-time crime center.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): 13 News Now

Drones / UAS Vendor: DJI

The Chesapeake Police Department uses DJI drones. The agency's drone department had an inventory of eight drones in September 2022.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): 13 News Now MuckRock

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