Sussex County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Sussex 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
Laurel Police Department
The Laurel Police Department operates seven 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 $6,068 to the Laurel Police Department 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
Rehoboth Beach Police Department
The Rehoboth Beach Police Department has four Flock Safety license plate readers have been active since mid-April 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Cape Gazette
Georgetown Police Department
The Georgetown Police Department uses Axon body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Georgetown Police Department's Facebook page
The Georgetown Police Department operates a camera registry.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Georgetown Police Department
Ocean View Police Department
The Ocean View Police Department operates one drone as of 2017, 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.govwww.millville84.com
The Ocean View Police Department uses body worn cameras, according to a Delaware House Democrats press release.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Delaware House Democrats website
Bethany Beach Police Department
The Bethany Beach Police Department uses body worn cameras, according to a Delaware House Democrats press release.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Delaware House Democrats website
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026