Craighead County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Craighead 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
Jonesboro Police Department
The Jonesboro Police Department has a drone program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Jonesboro Police DepartmentPolice1
The Jonesboro Police Department’s Real Time Crime Center has over 700 cameras across town.
The Jonesboro Police Department’s Real Time Crime Center received a grant in 2023 to purchase and install 34 Flock safety cameras across the Jonesboro area.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): K8 ABC
The Jonesboro Police Department received a $7,584 grant from the US Bureau of Justice Assistance in 2022 for its body-worn camera program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Bureau of Justice Assistance, US Department of Justice
Bay Police Department
The Bay Police Department received a Small, Rural, and Tribal Body-Worn Camera Program grant for $1,935 for 6 body-worn cameras in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Justice & Security StrategiesJustice & Security Strategies
Craighead County Sheriff's Office
The Craighead County Sheriff's Office received $36,000 from the Bureau of Justice Assistance to purchase 36 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 Craighead County Sheriff's Office operated drones as of 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): KAITCenter for the Study of the Drone at Bard Collegewww.kait8.com
Arkansas State University Police Department
The Arkansas State University Police Department uses body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026