Newport News County

County record. Includes every city and agency within Newport News County.

5 Deployments on record
2 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 · 1 Doorbell & camera registry · none on record 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

Newport News Police Department

Newport News · 4 deployments · last documented May 2024 · on UnGovr: City of Newport News

ALPR Vendor: Flock Safety

As of April 2024, the Newport News Police Department operates 74 Flock Safety automated license plate readers. The agency stores ALPR data for 30 days.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Flock SafetyThe News & ObserverThe News & Observer

Fixed cameras & RTCC

The Newport News Police Department has been using a real time crime center since 2021.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): StateTechCity of Newport News

Drones / UAS Vendor: RMUS

The Newport News Police Department uses RMUS drones. The agency had an inventory of 10 to 12 drones in May 2023.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Daily PressCity of Newport News

Gunshot detection Vendor: ShotSpotter

The Newport News Police Department purchased ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology in 2019.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Daily Press13 News NowCity of Newport News

Newport News Sheriff's Office

Newport News · 1 deployment · last documented Sep 2015 · on UnGovr: City of Newport News

Body-worn & dashcam

The Newport News Sheriff's Office received a $210,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to purchase 200 body-worn cameras in 2015.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Daily Press

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