St. Clair County
County record. Includes every city and agency within St. Clair 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
Ashville Police Department
The Ashville Police Department operates seven Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Odenville Police Department
The Odenville Police Department operates five Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Pell City Police Department
The Pell City Police Department uses Axon's Fusus camera registry.
The Pell City Police Department received $60,000 from the Bureau of Justice Assistance to purchase 30 body-worn cameras through the 2022 Small, Rural, Tribal BWC Microgrant program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Small, Rural, and Tribal Body-Worn Camera microgrant grantee list
The Pell City Police Department acquired Flock automated license plate readers in 2019.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Yahoo! NewsNextdoorFlock Safety
Moody Police Department
The Moody Police Department uses Axon body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Moody Police Department's Facebook page
The Moody Police Department has 7 Flock Safety automated licence plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Trussville TribuneMuckRock
Margaret Police Department
As of April 2024, the Margaret Police Department operates three Flock Safety automated license plate readers. The agency stores ALPR data for 30 days.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Flock SafetyThe News & ObserverThe News & Observer
St. Clair County Sheriff's Office
The St. Clair Sheriff's Office uses Flock automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): St. Clair Sheriff's Office
Steele Police Department
The Steele Police Department installed a Flock Safety automated license plate reader in April 2020.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Anniston Star
Springville Police Department
The Springville Police Department began using Flock Safety automated license plate readers in 2019.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Trussville Tribune
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026