Dale County

County record. Includes every city and agency within Dale County.

2 Deployments on record
1 Agencies
2 Technology categories

Technology presence

ALPR · 1 Fixed cameras & RTCC · none on record Face recognition · none on record Drones / UAS · 1 Gunshot detection · none on record Body-worn & dashcam · none on record Doorbell & camera registry · none on record Cell-site simulators · none on record Predictive policing · none on record Social-media monitoring · none on record
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

Dale County Sheriff's Office

Ozark · 2 deployments · last documented Sep 2025 · on UnGovr: Dale County

ALPR Vendor: Flock Safety

The Dale County Sheriff's Office operates seven Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department

Drones / UAS

The Dale County Sheriff's Office operates one drone as of 2016, 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

City of Daleville

City of Daleville · Daleville Police Department

Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.

Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory

City of Ozark

City of Ozark · Ozark Police Department

Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.

Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory

Town of Clayhatchee

Town of Clayhatchee · Clayhatchee Police Department

Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.

Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory

Town of Level Plains

Town of Level Plains · Level Plains Police Department

Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.

Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory

Town of Midland City

Town of Midland City · Midland City Police Department

Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.

Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory

Town of Napier Field

Town of Napier Field · Napier Field Police Department

Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.

Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory

Town of Newton

Town of Newton · Newton Police Department

Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.

Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory

Town of Pinckard

Town of Pinckard · Pinckard Police Department

Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.

Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory

Sources: FBI Crime Data Explorer · EFF Atlas of Surveillance