Surveillance in Rhode Island
70/100
Rhode Island has 938 documented surveillance devices — roughly 85.6 per 100,000 residents.
424
License plate readers
501
CCTV cameras
0
DOT traffic cameras
0
Red light / speed cams
11
Gunshot detectors
2
Toll booths
Documented police technology
- 149 agency records in the EFF Atlas of Surveillance, covering 46 documented technology deployments
- Confirmed ShotSpotter / SoundThinking coverage zone: None documented (individual acoustic sensors are still mapped above)
- Cell-site simulators (Stingray): Not documented
- Federal surveillance grants: $1.5M
Counts are documented devices from OpenStreetMap, state DOT feeds, municipal open data and the EFF Atlas of Surveillance. They are a floor, not a total — undocumented cameras are common, and a device appearing here is not confirmation it is currently operating.