Cobb County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Cobb 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
Austell Police Department
The Austell Police Department operates 15 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Austell Police Department uses the Fusus camera registry system.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): 404 Media
The Austell Police Department operates one DJI Phantom drone as of 2016, 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.wsbtv.com
Kennesaw Police Department
The Kennesaw Police Department operates 16 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The Kennesaw Police Department uses Axon's Fusus camera registry.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Cobb Courier
The Kennesaw Police Department received a $325,600 Community Public Safety Grant in 2023, which the agency planned to use for real-time crime center.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): State of Georgia
Kennesaw State University Police Department
The Kennesaw State University Police Department operates 49 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The Kennesaw State University Police Department received a $642,213 Community Public Safety Grant in 2023, which the agency planned to use for predictive policing technology.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): State of Georgia
The Kennesaw State University Police Department has been using body-worn cameras since at least 2015.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Government informationWSAV
Marietta Police Department
The Marietta Police Department operates five 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 Marietta Police Department acquired mobile license plate readers from Vigilant Solutions in 2013 and added Flock Safety stationary ALPRs in 2018.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): MuckRockAtlanta Journal-Constitution
The Marietta Police Department acquired 142 BodyWorn body-worn cameras in 2016.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Cision PR Newswire
Cobb County Police Department
The Cobb County Police Department operated drones as of 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Marietta Daily JournalCobb County Police DepartmentCenter for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Cobb County Police Department received approval for a contract with Clearview AI in December 2022. The agency acknowledged that the agency uses face recognition technology in January 2020.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Marietta Daily JournalCobb County
The Cobb County Police Department operates a real-time crime center.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Fox 5 AtlantaWSBTV
The Cobb County Police Department has used Flock Safety automated license plate readers since 2019.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Flock SafetyFox 5 AtlantaMarrietta Daily Journal
The Cobb County Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Cobb CountyCobb County Government Website
Acworth Police Department
Acworth Police Department uses the Fusus camera registry system.
The Acworth Police Department purchased body-worn and in-car cameras for $250,000 from WatchGuard, using funds from the Georgia Municipal Association lease/purchase program. The Acworth Police Department also received a Small, Rural, and Tribal Body-Worn Camera Program grant for $84,000 for 42 body-worn cameras in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Atlanta Journal ConstitutionJustice & Security StrategiesJustice & Security Strategies
The Acworth Police Department received a $930,859 Community Public Safety Grant in 2023, which the agency planned to use for predictive policing technology.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): State of GeorgiaAcworth Police Department
The Acworth Police Department scanned 546,422 license plates using Vigilant Solutions automated license plate readers in 2019.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Acworth Police Department
Cobb County Sheriff's Office
The Cobb County Sheriff's Office uses the Fusus camera registry platform.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): MuckRock
The Cobb County Sheriff's Office uses the Fusus real-time crime center platform.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): MuckRock
Smyrna Police Department
The Smyrna Police Department installed Flock Safety automated license plate readers in 2019
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Smyrna Police Department
The Smyrna Police Department utilizes the Fusus camera registry and video integration system.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Fusus
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026