Clayton County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Clayton 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
Clayton County Police Department
The Clayton County Police Department operates 63 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The Clayton County Police Department has a real-time crime center.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Facebook
Morrow Police Department
The Morrow Police Department operates 15 Flock Safety automated license plate readers, plus six additional Redspeed cameras, as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Morrow Police Department received $11,830 to purchase 10 body-worn cameras through the Small, Rural and Tribal Body-Worn Camera program in 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): SRT BWC Program
The Morrow Police Department operates one Yuneec Typhoon H drone as of 2017, according to data compiled by the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard Collegewww.cbs46.com
Lake City Police Department
The Lake City Police Department operates one Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Riverdale Police Department
The Riverdale Police Department operates five Flock Safety automated license plate readers, plus nine additional Redspeed cameras, as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Clayton County Sheriff's Office
The Clayton County Sheriff's Office got approval from the Georgia Department of Transportation in October 2022 to install 22 automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Georgia Department of Transportation
Clayton County Sheriff's Office uses the Fusus camera registry system.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): 404 Media
Forest Park Police Department
The Forest Park Police Department got approval from the Georgia Department of Transportation in December 2022 to install 10 automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Georgia Department of Transportation
The Forest Park Police Department uses Paladin drones.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Atlanta News First
The Forest Park Police Department has a real time crime center.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Atlanta News First
Jonesboro Police Department
The Jonesboro Police Department began testing body-worn cameras in 2017 and began implementing a formal program in 2019.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CITY OF JONESBOROClayton News Daily
Metro South Community Improvement District
In December 2020, the Metro South Community Improvement District approved the installation of Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Metro South Community Improvement District
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026