Chatham County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Chatham 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
Pooler Police Department
The Pooler Police Department operates 25 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Garden City Police Department
The Garden City Police Department got approval from the Georgia Department of Transportation in July 2021 to install five automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Georgia Department of Transportation
The Garden City Police Department received a $157,080 Community Public Safety Grant in 2023, which the agency planned to use for gunshot detection technology.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): State of Georgia
Port Wentworth Police Department
The Port Wentworth Police Department received approval from the Georgia Department of Transportation to install 12 license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Georgia Department of Transportation
Savannah Police Department
The Savannah Police Department uses Axon's Fusus camera registry platform.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Savanah Morning NewsWSAVWTOC
The Savannah Police Department uses Axon's Fusus real-time crime center platform.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of Savannah
The Savannah Police Department has five drones as of 2020.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The HillCBS Newswww.wsav.com
The Savannah Police Department uses Shotspotter Missions (now Shotspotter Connect), a predictive policing tool previously known as Hunchlab (now Shotspotter Connect).
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Savannah NowSavannah.gov
The Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department increased its body-worn camera program from 360 Axon BWCs to 560 Axon BWCs in 2016.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): AxonSavannah PoliceSavannah Now
The city of Savannah spent $32,000 on Flock Safety automated license plate readers in 2020.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of Savannah
Chatham County Police Department
The Chatham County Commission approved a 5-year, $72,944 contract with Axon for body-worn cameras in 2019.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Savannah Morning NewsWSAVChatham County Police Department Facebook
The Chatham County Police Department purchased Flock Safety automated license plate readers in January 2020.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Chatham CountyChatham County
Tybee Island Police Department
The Tybee Island Police Department uses Axon body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): 11aliveSavannah Now
The Tybee Island Police Department shared data collected using Vigilant Solutions automated license plate readers with 192 other law enforcement agencies, according to documents produced in 2019.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): MuckRock
Georgia Southern University Police Department
Police at the Georgia Southern University Armstrong Campus (formerly Armstrong State University) began using automated license platre readers on campus in 2017.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Georgia Southern University
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026