Baldwin County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Baldwin County.
Technology presence
What these categories mean
- ALPR
- Automated license plate readers (ALPR): camera systems that automatically capture, read, and log vehicle license plates with location and time, producing a searchable record of vehicle movements.
- Fixed cameras & RTCC
- Agency-operated fixed video cameras and the real-time crime centers (RTCC) that aggregate live and recorded feeds for monitoring. Extends the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Atlas, which enumerates real-time crime centers and camera registries but not standalone fixed-camera estates.
- Face recognition
- Software that matches faces in images or video against a reference database to identify or verify individuals.
- Drones / UAS
- Uncrewed aerial systems (UAS), commonly called drones, operated by an agency for overhead observation, imaging, or sensing.
- Gunshot detection
- Networks of acoustic sensors that detect and locate suspected gunfire and alert an agency.
- Body-worn & dashcam
- Officer body-worn and in-vehicle dashboard cameras that record encounters; public access to the footage is frequently restricted.
- Doorbell & camera registry
- Programs that give an agency access to privately owned camera footage: doorbell-camera partnerships, citizen camera registries, and private-camera integration platforms.
- Cell-site simulators
- Devices that mimic cell towers to locate or identify nearby mobile phones. They are often called Stingrays, or IMSI catchers after the international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) number that identifies each phone on a network. Adjacent: communications surveillance outside the visual/sensor core.
- Predictive policing
- Software that forecasts where crime may occur or who may be involved, to direct policing. Adjacent: analytics rather than a sensing deployment.
- Social-media monitoring
- Tools that collect and analyze public social-media activity for an agency. Adjacent: open-source/communications monitoring outside the visual/sensor core.
The record, by agency
Orange Beach Police Department
The Orange Beach Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): 1819 News
Bay Minnete Police Department
The Bay Minette Police Department uses body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): NBC 15 NewsBay Minette Police Department Facebook page
Robertsdale Police Department
The Robertsdale Police Department received a Small, Rural and Tribal Body-Worn Camera Program grant for $33,379 for 18 body-worn cameras in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Justice & Security StrategiesJustice & Security Strategies
Baldwin County Sheriff's Office
The Baldwin County Sheriff's Office has five DJI drones as of 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Adorama Business SolutionsWKRGCenter for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Baldwin County Sheriff's Office has Utility body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Baldwin County
Silverhill Police Department
The Silverhill Police Department uses Watchguard body comeras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Silverhill Police Department Facebook page
Foley Police Department
The Foley Police Department scanned 2,645,070 license plates using Vigilant Solutions automated license plate readers in 2019.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Foley Police Department
Daphne Police Department
The Daphne Police Department operates one drone as of 2020, according to data compiled by the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard Collegewww.faa.gov
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026