← All watched subjects

Cameras and surveillance

License plate readers, camera networks and the contracts behind them.

Who took it up, and when

Each government's first appearance in the window, in order. The bar is where in the window it landed, so a subject that swept the region in one season and one that trickled across two years read differently at a glance.

Month by month

Items mentioning this subject per month across the window.

Which words did the matching

A subject carried entirely by one phrase is a different finding from one carried by six. These are the words the documents themselves used.

• automated license plate ×13
• flock safety ×11
• alpr ×6
• flock ×6
• license plate reader ×3
• body-worn camera ×2
• drone program ×1
• drone sense ×1
• facial recognition ×1
• real-time crime center ×1
• surveillance camera ×1
• surveillance system ×1

Governments with nothing on this

No item or write-up in this window mentions the subject in Chatham County Schools, City of Durham, City of Raleigh, City of Sanford, NC General Assembly, Orange County, Town of Cary, Town of Chapel Hill, Town of Fuquay-Varina, Town of Holly Springs, Town of Knightdale, Town of Morrisville, Town of Wake Forest, Wake County, and Wake County Public School System. That is not proof nothing happened there. Two school boards and several towns publish agendas no program can read, and a subject can be discussed at length without a word of it reaching a printed agenda.

What was on the agenda

Public comment is only known where a meeting's captions have been read, which is a small share of them. "Not read" means unknown, not zero.

Other subjects

• Policing, courts and jails 78
• Data centers 68
• Congregations before the board 62
• Homelessness and shelter 57
• Opioid settlement money 55
• Running the election 49