Cell-site simulators: every mention, every town¶
Generated 2026-09-25T17:14:11 — 8 mentions across 6 towns, 2016-06-01 to 2025-04-10.
Cell-site simulators ('Stingrays') — devices that impersonate a cell tower to locate phones.
These are unreviewed keyword matches, not verified claims. Each receipt below is a place in the public record where a search term appeared in a meeting's auto-generated captions. Keywords are ambiguous — "drone" can mean a bee, "flock" a bird — and auto-captions mis-transcribe. Follow the timestamped link and listen before citing anything here.
A town appearing with few mentions, or not appearing at all, is not evidence that it has avoided this technology. It far more often means that town's meeting backlog has not been downloaded yet, its meetings are not captioned, or its video archive lives on a platform this pipeline cannot read. The coverage figure beside each town is the share of its known meetings actually transcribed — read it first.
Mentions come from two kinds of source. Most are meeting transcripts (auto-generated captions). Some are published agenda or minutes documents, marked
agenda/minuteson the receipt and counted in the "From agendas" column — those are the town's own papers rather than a machine transcription of speech.
No human review has been applied to any mention in this file.
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Towns, by volume¶
| Town | Mentions | From agendas | Meetings | Coverage | First | Most recent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guilford | 3 | · | 2 | 84% | 2017-01-23 | 2017-10-25 |
| Berlin | 1 | · | 1 | 83% | 2023-07-13 | 2023-07-13 |
| Cheshire | 1 | · | 1 | 63% | 2025-04-10 | 2025-04-10 |
| Columbia | 1 | · | 1 | 72% | 2022-10-05 | 2022-10-05 |
| Fairfield | 1 | · | 1 | 98% | 2016-06-01 | 2016-06-01 |
| Norwalk | 1 | · | 1 | 98% | 2023-03-01 | 2023-03-01 |
Receipts¶
Most recent first within each town. Every line links to the exact second of the meeting video.
Guilford — 3 mentions¶
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[2017-10-25] Board of Education — BOE 10/25/17 Budget Meeting
…seven of them are full-time swimmers year-round swimmers in s way and with the S White House program the stingray program in Bradford so we have the girls who are coming that would put us let's… Watch on YouTube ▸ (term:
cell_site_sim) -
[2017-01-23] Board of Education — BOE Budget Meeting Day 1 1/23/17
…G Durham Road here in Guilford I've been a resident of the town for about 12 years and I'm a YMCA Stingray parent of two boys in second and fifth grade I think many of the important points have… Watch on YouTube ▸ (term:
cell_site_sim) -
[2017-01-23] Board of Education — BOE Budget Meeting Day 1 1/23/17
…them swim I've been here before you in the past um I wanted to bring a a picture this is the the current Stingray team you can see it's gigantic it's a huge team and it uh it's gotten bigger… Watch on YouTube ▸ (term:
cell_site_sim)
Berlin — 1 mention¶
- [2023-07-13] Public Building Commission — Public Building Commission 2023 07 13
…kid activity in the area and they gravitate towards the school I watch them 10 million Stingray bicycles you're probably hung out there as a kid my stomach goes a whole time with the… Watch on YouTube ▸ (term:
cell_site_sim)
Cheshire — 1 mention¶
- [2025-04-10] Town Council — Town Council Budget 4-10-25
…at their pool well the Sington pool Southernington has their own team so there's a Southernington Stingray race and there's Chester Sea Dogs right um they're both Y teams um and yet the… Watch on YouTube ▸ (term:
cell_site_sim)
Columbia — 1 mention¶
- [2022-10-05] Lake Management Advisory Commission — Lake Management Advisory Commission 10/5/2022
…when they were putting those size motors on the 17 even the 19 Footers my my Stingray is a 19-footer and I have a 135 on it and honestly that's about Max um the biggest size boat you're gonna… Watch on YouTube ▸ (term:
cell_site_sim)
Fairfield — 1 mention¶
- [2016-06-01] Board of Selectmen — Board of Selectmen 6/1/2016
…north pole their characters were a polar bear a stingray a penguin a pink walrus a rainbow horned norwal an elf and santa claus… Watch on YouTube ▸ (term:
cell_site_sim)
Norwalk — 1 mention¶
- [2023-03-01] Land Use and Building Management Committee — Land Use & Building Management 3-1-23
…Okay so I think oh okay yeah I think these these like contact that you see like Stingray dog or somebody opens it it trigger alarm to go off that's right correct… Watch on YouTube ▸ (term:
cell_site_sim)