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County record · Georgia

Cherokee County

10 Deployments on record
5 Agencies
5 Technology categories

Technology presence

ALPR · 4 Fixed cameras & RTCC · 1 Face recognition · none on record Drones / UAS · 1 Gunshot detection · none on record Body-worn & dashcam · 3 Doorbell & camera registry · 1 Cell-site simulators · none on record Predictive policing · none on record Social-media monitoring · none on record

The record, by agency

Cherokee County Sheriff's Office

Canton · 4 deployments · on UnGovr: Cherokee County

ALPR Vendor: Flock Safety

The Cherokee County Sheriff's Office received a $518,788 Community Public Safety Grant in 2023, which the agency planned to use for Flock Safety automated license plate readers.

Doorbell & camera registry Vendor: Axon

The Cherokee Sheriff's Office maintains a camera registry via Axon's Fusus camera registry system.

Drones / UAS Vendor: DJI

The Cherokee County Sheriff's Office operates two DJI drones as of 2016, according to data compiled by the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College.

Fixed cameras & RTCC

The Cherokee County Sheriff's Office began building a real-time information center in 2025.

Canton Police Department

Canton · 2 deployments · on UnGovr: City of Canton

ALPR

The Canton City Council approved a police proposal to install automated license plate readers in 2019. The agency also has ALPRs mounted on four patrol cars.

Body-worn & dashcam Vendor: WatchGuard

The Canton Police Department uses WatchGuard body-worn cameras after first implementing a BWC program in 2016.

Woodstock Police Department

Woodstock · 2 deployments · on UnGovr: City of Woodstock

ALPR Vendor: Flock Safety

As of April 2024, the Woodstock Police Department operates seven Flock Safety automated license plate readers. The agency stores ALPR data for 30 days.

Body-worn & dashcam

The U.S. Department of Justice awarded $60,000 to the Woodstock Police Department in 2016 as part of the Bureau of Justice Assistance's body-worn camera grant program.

Ball Ground Police Department

Ball Ground · 1 deployment · on UnGovr: City of Ball Ground

ALPR Vendor: Vigilant Solutions

The Ball Ground Police Department scanned 175,506 license plates in 2019 using Vigilant Solutions automated license plate readers.

Cherokee County Sheriff's Department

Canton · 1 deployment · on UnGovr: Cherokee County

Body-worn & dashcam

As of 2017, some staff at the Cherokee County Adult Detention Center wore body-worn cameras.

Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026