Bulloch County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Bulloch 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
Bulloch County Sheriff's Office
The Bulloch County Sheriff's Office operates 32 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Statesboro Police Department
The Statesboro Police Department has installed 100 Raven gunshot detection devices from Flock Safety as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The Statesboro Police Department installed Flock Safety license plate readers in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): TGV News
The Statesboro Police Department access private surveillance cameras through Fusus software.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Stateboro Herald
Brooklet Police Department
The Brooklet Police Department got approval from the Georgia Department of Transportation in January 2024 to install two automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Georgia Department of Transportation
Bulloch County Sheriff’s Office
The Bulloch County Sheriff's Office uses seven drones in 2021
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Statesboro HeraldWTOC11AllOnGeorgia
Georgia Southern University Parking and Transportation
Georgia Southern University uses automated license plate readers to administer its parking permit program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Georgia Southern University Parking and Transportation
Georgia Southern University
The Georgia Southern University Police Department began using body-worn cameras in 2015.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Statesboro HeraldThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026