Coffee County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Coffee 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
Coffee County Sheriff's Department
The Coffee County Sheriff's Department operates eight Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Sumter County Sheriff's Office
The U.S. Department of Justice awarded $16,265 to the Sumter County Sheriff's Office in 2017 as part of the Bureau of Justice Assistance's body-worn camera grant program. The Sumter County Sheriff's Office also received a Small, Rural, and Tribal Body-Worn Camera Program grant for $15,000 for 15 body-worn cameras in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): U.S Department of JusticeJustice & Security StrategiesJustice & Security Strategies
Nicholls Police Department
The Nicholls Police Department received a Small, Rural and Tribal Body-Worn Camera Program grant for $10,000 for 5 body-worn cameras in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Justice & Security StrategiesJustice & Security Strategies
Douglas Police Department
The Douglas Police Department began using ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology in 2023. The agency received a $110,000 Community Public Safety Grant in 2023, which the agency planned to use for gunshot detection technology.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WALB10State of Georgia
The Douglas Police Department purchased 30 body-worn cameras in 2015.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WALB News 10
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026