Carroll County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Carroll 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
Carroll County Sheriff's Department
The Carroll County Sheriff's Department operates 13 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Carrollton Police Department
The Carrollton Police Department operates 22 Condor cameras from Flock Safety as of September 2025. The cameras are paired with video analytics software.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The Carrollton Police Department has installed 31 Raven gunshot detection devices from Flock Safety as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The Carrollton Police Department received a $1,100,752 Community Public Safety Grant in 2023, which the agency planned to use for a real-time crime center.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): State of GeorgiaCarrollton Police Department
The Carrollton Police Department uses WatchGuard body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Carrollton Police Department Facebook Page11Alive
The Carollton Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Carrollton Police Department
The Carrollton Police Department maintains a camera registry via Flock Safety.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Flock Safety
Villa Rica Police Department
The Villa Rica Police Department operates 14 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The Villa Rica Police Department uses drones.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Times-Georgian
Bowdon Police Department
The Bowdon Police Department operates five Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Temple Police Department
As of April 2024, the Temple Police Department operates four 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
University of West Georgia Police Department
University of West Georgia Police Department received $60,000 to purchase 30 body-worn cameras through the Small, Rural and Tribal Body-worn Camera Program in 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): SRT BWC Program
The University of West Georgia Police Department began using ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology in 2018.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): UWG News
West Georgia Technical College Police Department
West Georgia Technical College Police Department received $6,000 to purchase 16 body-worn cameras through the Small, Rural and Tribal Body-worn Camera Program in 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): SRT BWC Program
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026