County record · Georgia

Columbia County

4 Deployments on record

3 Agencies

4 Technology categories

Technology presence

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

The record, by agency

Columbia County Sheriff's Office

Appling · 2 deployments · on UnGovr: Columbia County

ALPR

The Columbia County Sheriff's Office uses automated license plate readers.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WJBF

Drones / UAS Vendor: DJI

The Columbia County Sheriff's Office operates three DJI drones as of 2015, 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 College registry.faa.gov

Columbia County Sheriff’s Office

Appling · 1 deployment · on UnGovr: Columbia County

Fixed cameras & RTCC

The Columbia County Sheriff’s Office opened a real-time crime center in 2022.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WJBF WJBF

Grovetown Police Department

Grovetown · 1 deployment · on UnGovr: City of Grovetown

Body-worn & dashcam

Grovetown Police Department received $46,000 to purchase 23 body-worn cameras through the Small, Rural and Tribal Body-Worn Camera program in 2024.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): SRT BWC Program

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