Calhoun County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Calhoun 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
Oxford Police Department
The Oxford Police Department operates 25 Flock Safety automated license plate readers, plus five additional ALPR-enabled cameras, as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The Oxford Police Department uses body-worn cameras in combination with Truleo video analysis software.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Truleo
The Oxford Police Department opened the East Metro Area Crime Center in May 2019 and uses the Fusus real-time crime center platform.
Jacksonville State University Police Department
The Jacksonville State University Police Department operates two Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Anniston Police Department
The Anniston Police Department uses body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): ABC NewsAnniston Police Department Facebook Page
Calhoun County Sheriff's Office
In January 2023, the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office announced that the county would install 10 Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Calhoun County Journal
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026