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Gunshot detection: every mention, every town

Generated 2026-09-25T17:14:05 — 78 mentions across 5 towns, 2015-04-21 to 2026-08-05.

Acoustic sensor networks, such as ShotSpotter, that attempt to detect and locate gunfire.

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/minutes on 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
New Haven 67 20 27 91% 2015-04-21 2026-07-06
Hartford 8 · 2 96% 2019-05-07 2024-04-16
Bristol 1 1 1 77% 2026-04-28 2026-04-28
East Lyme 1 1 1 95% 2026-08-05 2026-08-05
Middletown ⁽ⁿᵖ⁾ 1 · 1 19% 2026-07-20 2026-07-20

⁽ⁿᵖ⁾ = that town's full report is generated but not yet published, so there is nothing to link to yet.

Receipts

Most recent first within each town. Every line links to the exact second of the meeting video.

New Haven — 67 mentions

  • [2026-07-06] Board of Alders — Board of Alders Agenda - 2026-07-06

    …Safety. Favorable. a. Order of the Board of Alders of the City of New Haven authorizing the Mayor of the City of New Haven to enter into a five-year agreement with SoundThinking, Inc., for an annual ShotSpotter subscription in the amount of Two Million, Eighty-Four Thousand, Four Hundred And Thirty-One Dollars ($2,084,431.00) to provide a gunfire detection system and software. b. Order of the Bo… Open document ▸ (agenda/minutes · term: gunshot_detection)

  • [2026-06-01] Board of Alders — Board of Alders Agenda - 2026-06-01

    …n has already been taken by BOA REPORT: 1682-14 RE: ORDER OF THE BOARD OF ALDERS Authorizing the Mayor of The City of New Haven to Enter into A Five-Year Agreement with Soundthinking, Inc. For Annual ShotSpotter Subscription, in the Amount of Two Million, Eighty-Four Thousand, Four Hundred and Thirty-One Dollars ($2,084,431.00) to provide the Gunfire Detection System/Software. Submitted by: Acting… Open document ▸ (agenda/minutes · term: gunshot_detection)

  • [2026-05-19] Public Safety Committee — BoA Public Safety Committee 5/19/2026

    …of New Haven to enter into a five-year agreement with ShotSpotter, Inc. for annual ShotSpotter subscription in the amount of… Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: gunshot_detection)

  • [2026-05-19] Public Safety Committee — BoA Public Safety Committee 5/19/2026

    …agreement with ShotSpotter, Inc. for annual ShotSpotter subscription in the amount of $2 million… Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: gunshot_detection)

  • [2026-05-19] Public Safety Committee — BoA Public Safety Committee 5/19/2026

    …uh item number one, which is the ShotSpotter. As you come up, please state your name, address for the record.… Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: gunshot_detection)

  • [2026-05-19] Public Safety Committee — BoA Public Safety Committee 5/19/2026

    …Uh J A R R O D B O Y C E. Uh supervisor of the crime scene unit and uh administrator of ShotSpotter for the police department. >> Thank you.… Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: gunshot_detection)

  • [2026-05-19] Public Safety Committee — BoA Public Safety Committee 5/19/2026

    …>> As you can see, this is a brief overview of ShotSpotter, how long we've had it, what it does, what its purpose is. Some of you might know already. I know… Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: gunshot_detection)

  • [2026-05-19] Public Safety Committee — BoA Public Safety Committee 5/19/2026

    …outside of our coverage area. It's an investigative tool and ShotSpotter doesn't uh guarantee these hits, but it's something that we can see we can use. Um, these aren't verified.… Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: gunshot_detection)

  • [2026-05-19] Public Safety Committee — BoA Public Safety Committee 5/19/2026

    …we're down almost 30%. Um, so I get these overviews on a pretty regular basis from ShotSpotter. They provide a lot of information to make decisions based on.… Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: gunshot_detection)

  • [2026-05-19] Public Safety Committee — BoA Public Safety Committee 5/19/2026

    …bit. Um a culmination of how ShotSpotter's used um plus patrol investigative services and plainclothes working collectively… Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: gunshot_detection)

  • [2026-05-19] Public Safety Committee — BoA Public Safety Committee 5/19/2026

    …here, there is an increase uh but my finance manager was able to negotiate with ShotSpotter market price. We were able to bring that down. So, over the next 5 years, we'll be saving $257,000… Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: gunshot_detection)

  • [2026-05-19] Public Safety Committee — BoA Public Safety Committee 5/19/2026

    …about this last meeting, but one of the biggest values when it comes to ShotSpotter is that officers know exactly where to go immediately, right? So, we talk about our solvability rates… Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: gunshot_detection)

55 further mentions in New Haven not shown here — all of them are in New Haven's full report.

Hartford — 8 mentions

  • [2024-04-16] Operation, Management, Budget & Government Accountability Committee — City of Hartford FY 24-25 Budget Hearing April 16th, 2024 Live Stream

    …what exactly does that mean so as I you know one of the one of the Technologies I mentioned here was shotspotter so that allows us to we found out when we went to shotspotter that only about 18 to 20%… Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: gunshot_detection)

  • [2024-04-16] Operation, Management, Budget & Government Accountability Committee — City of Hartford FY 24-25 Budget Hearing April 16th, 2024 Live Stream

    …I mentioned here was shotspotter so that allows us to we found out when we went to shotspotter that only about 18 to 20% of shots fired calls were being of shots fired incidents were being called in so… Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: gunshot_detection)

  • [2024-04-16] Operation, Management, Budget & Government Accountability Committee — City of Hartford FY 24-25 Budget Hearing April 16th, 2024 Live Stream

    …find this in the budget but I didn't on short notice what do we spend what's in the budget this year for shotspotter like the what we pay to the company do we have that close to… Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: gunshot_detection)

  • [2024-04-16] Operation, Management, Budget & Government Accountability Committee — City of Hartford FY 24-25 Budget Hearing April 16th, 2024 Live Stream

    …mean they weren't they were spending all this money and they weren't responding to the shotspotter activations which I mean I guess from a budgetary perspective you could say that that… Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: gunshot_detection)

  • [2024-04-16] Operation, Management, Budget & Government Accountability Committee — City of Hartford FY 24-25 Budget Hearing April 16th, 2024 Live Stream

    …officers responded to a shot spotter activation U you know and somebody was shot um which is not shotspotter's fault I think that's an officer training issue um what I can tell you we don't have any… Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: gunshot_detection)

  • [2024-04-16] Operation, Management, Budget & Government Accountability Committee — City of Hartford FY 24-25 Budget Hearing April 16th, 2024 Live Stream

    …data that would show how many shots fired calls were called in pre-shot spotter vers and even with shotspotter uh we have data that shows you know of the you know 100% of shot spotter… Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: gunshot_detection)

  • [2024-04-16] Operation, Management, Budget & Government Accountability Committee — City of Hartford FY 24-25 Budget Hearing April 16th, 2024 Live Stream

    …cameras now uh and from a shooting perspective a lot of that is directed by shotspotter um you know as far as a cost benefit analysis we haven't done that uh data Beyond um you know citizen caller… Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: gunshot_detection)

  • [2019-05-07] Operation, Management, Budget & Government Accountability Committee — City of Hartford FY 2019-2020 Recommended Budget Hearing May 07, 2019

    …overall budget yeah give or take yeah alright do you support the help to support the ShotSpotter infrastructure were HPD yes yeah what analysis do you run for them we basically look at it at… Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: gunshot_detection)

Bristol — 1 mention

  • [2026-04-28] (unassigned body) — Board of Finance Other - 2026-04-28

    …era (DVR) • Improved video quality with reduced motion blur and better low-light performance • Multi-mic audio—four built-in microphones • Wireless upload option • Gunshot detection and alerts • Streaming audio and video capability (requires the Axon Respond operations platform) • “Find my camera” feature • Verbal transcrip… Open document ▸ (agenda/minutes · term: gunshot_detection)

East Lyme — 1 mention

  • [2026-08-05] Board of Selectmen — Board of Selectmen Minutes - 2026-08-05

    …; (e) biometric surveillance technology, including facial, voice, iris, and gait-recognition software and databases; (f) mobile DNA capture technology; (g) gunshot detection and location hardware and services; (h) x-ray vans; (i) video and audio monitoring or recording technology, such as surveillance cameras,… Open document ▸ (agenda/minutes · term: gunshot_detection)

Middletown — 1 mention

  • [2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission — Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

    …um and then just to give context i wanted to read out i'm sure this will be reviewed later um but i wanted to just give context to read out that from the flock drone site itself um this response 9-1-1 9-1-1 calls license plate reader hits gun gunshot detection it shares live video life thermal video night vision video um to uh they list stakeholders here which could be anyone um essentially my big… Watch ▸ jump to 5:54 ▸ (term: gunshot_detection)

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