Lee County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Lee 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.
- Fusion & investigative platforms
- Third-party platforms that fuse data across sources, sometimes including other surveillance feeds, for law-enforcement search and analysis, sold or licensed to multiple agencies rather than built by any one of them: examples include Palantir, Peregrine Systems, C3.ai, and SoundThinking's CrimeTracer (formerly Coplink X). Adjacent: an analytics layer that sits above the surveillance feeds this site otherwise tracks, rather than a sensing deployment of its own.
The record, by agency
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Lee County Sheriff's Office
The Lee County Sheriff's Office operates eight Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Public Records From the EFF via Pittsboro Police - See note
The Lee County Sheriff's Office operates one DJI Inspire 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 CollegeLink Compiled by Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard CollegeCenter for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Opelika Police Department
The Opelika Police Department operates 13 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Public Records From the EFF via Pittsboro Police - See note
Auburn Police Division
The Auburn Police Department uses Axon body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Auburn Public Safety
Auburn Police Department
The Auburn Police Department spent more than $44,300 on an Accurint Virtual Crime Center subscription in 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Observer
The Auburn Police Department uses Vigilant Solutions automated license plate readers, according to a 2014 press release.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Vigilant Solutions
Lee County Sheriff’s Office
The Lee County Sheriff’s Office received funding to purchase body-worn cameras for its deputies in 2022 at a cost of over $1,000 each.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WTVM
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance