Chesterfield County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Chesterfield 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.
The record, by agency
Chesterfield County Police Department
The Chesterfield County Police Department uses automated license plate readers, according to 2024 data.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): MuckRock
Chesterfield County Sheriff's Office uses the Fusus camera registry system.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): 404 Media
The Chesterfield County Police Department acquired 450 Axon body-worn cameras in 2016.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): AxonAssociated PressChesterfield County Police Twitter Account
The Chesterfield County Police Department acquired a new cell-site simulator from Tactical Support Equipment in April 2020.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): VocativKevin CollierChesterfield County Police Department
Virginia State University Police Department
The Virginia State University Police Department uses automated license plate readers, according to 2024 data.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): MuckRock
Chesterfield County Sheriff's Office
The Chesterfield County Sheriff's Office recieved a grant in 2022 for automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): U.S. Bureau of Justice Assistance
Virginia State Police
The Virginia State Police Department uses Dataworks Plus face recognition software. As of 2016, VSP had access to more than 1.2 million mugshots.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Perpetual Line-Up
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026