County record · Georgia

Clarke County

6 Deployments on record

4 Agencies

4 Technology categories

Technology presence

ALPR · 2 Fixed cameras & RTCC · none on record Face recognition · none on record Drones / UAS · 1 Gunshot detection · none on record Body-worn & dashcam · 2 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

Athens-Clarke County Police Department

Athens · 2 deployments · on UnGovr: City of Athens-Clarke County

ALPR Vendor: Flock Safety

The Athens-Clarke County Police Department operates 21 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department

Drones / UAS Vendor: DJI

The Athens-Clarke County Police Department operated drones as of 2024.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): FOX 5 Atlanta Athens-Clarke County Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College

University of Georgia Police Department

Athens · 2 deployments · on UnGovr: University of Georgia

ALPR

The University of Georgia Police Department scanned 1,238,147 license plates with automated license plate readers in 2017.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Electronic Frontier Foundation

Body-worn & dashcam

The University of Georgia Police Department have been using body-worn cameras since at least 2013.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Red and Black AJC Atlanta News Now

Athens-Clark County Police Department

Athens · 1 deployment

Doorbell & camera registry Vendor: Axon

The Athens-Clark County Police Department maintains a camera registry via Axon.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Axon

Clarke County Sheriff's Office

Athens · 1 deployment · on UnGovr: Clarke County

Body-worn & dashcam

The U.S. Department of Justice awarded $56,375 to the Clarke County Sheriff's Office in 2017 as part of the Bureau of Justice Assistance's body-worn camera grant program.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): U.S Department of Justice

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