County record · Virginia

Richmond County

4 Deployments on record

3 Agencies

3 Technology categories

Technology presence

ALPR · 1 Fixed cameras & RTCC · 1 Face recognition · none on record Drones / UAS · none on record Gunshot detection · none on record Body-worn & dashcam · 2 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

Richmond Police Department

Richmond · 2 deployments · on UnGovr: City of Richmond

Body-worn & dashcam Vendor: Axon

The Richmond Police Department uses Axon body-worn cameras.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Richmond Police Department Richmond Police Department Richmond Police Department

Fixed cameras & RTCC

The Richmond Police Department received funds to build a real-time crime center in 2023.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): 6 News Richmond Mayor Levar M. Stoney Twitter

Virginia Commonwealth University Parking and Transportation

Richmond · 1 deployment

ALPR

Virginia Commonwealth University Parking and Transportation planned to implement automated license plate reader technology in 2020.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Virginia Commonwealth University Parking and Transportation

Virginia Commonwealth University Police Department

Richmond · 1 deployment · on UnGovr: Virginia Commonwealth University

Body-worn & dashcam

The Virginia Commonwealth University Police Department began using body-worn cameras in 2015.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Virginia Commonwealth University Police Department Richmond Times-Dispatch

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