Montgomery County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Montgomery 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
Alabama Department of Corrections
The Alabama Department of Corrections operates 36 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The U.S. Department of Justice awarded $300,000 to the Alabama Department of Corrections in 2019 as part of the Bureau of Justice Assistance's body-worn camera grant program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): U.S Department of Justice
Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office has been using body-worn cameras since 2015.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Associated PressMontgomery Sheriff Facebook Page
Montgomery Police Department
Montgomery County Police Department uses the Fusus camera registry system.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): 404 Media
The Montgomery Police Department has used body-worn cameras since at least 2018 and received approval to purchase new body-worn cameras in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Montgomery Police Department FacebookWSFAPro Publica
The Montgomery Police Department oeprates the River Region Strategic Technology and Resource Center, which collects data from surveillance cameras and other data sources.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WAFF49
The Montgomery Police Department acquired cell-site simulator technology in 2006, according data compiled by Kevin Collier for Vocativ.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): VocativKevin Collierweb.archive.org
The Montgomery Police Department began using ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology in 2009.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): SoundThinking
Montgomery County Sheriff's Office
The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office operated drones as of 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Montgomery County Sheriff's OfficeMontgomery County Sheriff's OfficeCenter for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office maintains a camera registry via Axon.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Axon
Alabama Motor Vehicle Division
Alabama’s Motor Vehicle Division responds to face recognition requests from FBI’s FACE Services.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Electronic Frontier FoundationGovernment Accountability Office
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026