DeKalb County
County record. Includes every city and agency within DeKalb 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
Dunwoody Police Department
The Dunwoodie Police Department uses Flock Safety’s Drone as First Responder (DFR) system.
The Dunwoody Police Department describes its real-time crime center as "a comprehensive command center that brings together the city’s license plate recognition (LPR) cameras, gunshot detection, police body cameras, condor pan-tilt cameras, Flock’s Adaptive 911, and other safety features."
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Fox 5 AtlantaThe Champion
As of April 2024, the Dunwoody Police Department operates Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Flock SafetyThe News & ObserverThe News & Observer
The Dunwoody Police Department implemented body-worn cameras for all officers in 2015.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Reporter Newspaper
The Dunwoody Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of Dunwoody
Brookhaven Police Department
The Brookhaven Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers. In 2019, the Brookhaven Police Department operated a network of 50 automated license plate readers through a partnership with Georgia Power and Vigilant Solutions.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Officers.comRough Draft Atlanta
The Brookhaven Police Department operates a Drone as First Responder (DFR) program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Brookhaven Police DepartmentPolice1Police Magazine
The Brookhaven Police Department received a $1,301,289 Community Public Safety Grant in 2023, which the agency planned to use for gunshot detection technology.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): State of Georgia
The Brookhaven Police Department began using body-worn cameras in 2016. The initial 60 cameras cost $300,000.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): PatchBrookhaven Police Department
The Brookhaven Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of Brookhaven
Dekalb County Police Department
The Dekalb County Police Department utilizes the Fusus camera registry system.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): DecaturishDekalb County404 Media
Stone Mountain Police Department
The Stone Mountain Police Department has used body-worn cameras since at least 2016.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Fox 5SRT BWC Program
Chamblee Police Department
The Chamblee Police Department received a $1,368,794 Community Public Safety Grant in 2023, which the agency planned to use for a real-time crime center.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): State of GeorgiaWSB-TV
The Chamblee Police Department uses WatchGuard body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of Chamblee Facebook PageChamblee Police Department Facebook page
The Chamblee Police Department has two patrol cars equipped with automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Chamblee Police
The Chamblee Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras through its "Community Camera Program." It also accepts registrations through Motorola Solutions' CityProtect platform.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Chamblee Police DepartmentCityProtect
Doraville Police Department
The Doraville Police Department received a $220,000 Community Public Safety Grant in 2023, which the agency planned to use for gunshot detection technology.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): State of Georgia
The Doraville Police Department uses Axon body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Doraville Police Department Facebook page
The Doraville Police Department shared data collected using Vigilant Solutions automated license plate readers with 155 other law enforcement agencies, according to documents produced in 2018.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): MuckRock
Decatur Police Department
According to reporting from The Markup, the Decatur Police Department used PredPol (now Geolitica) between 2/21/18 and 1/30/21.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Markup
The Decatur Police Department issued all officers with Coreforce (formerly Utility) body-worn cameras in 2015.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Decatur Police Department
The Decatur Police Department first received automated license plate readers in 2009 through a federal grant. The city's 2020-2021 budget includes further funding for the program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Decatur MetroDecaturDecatur
Clarkston Police Department
The Clarkston Police Department began using BodyWorn-brand body-worn cameras as early as 2015.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of Clarkston ConnectionClarkston Police Department Facebook PageThe Champion Free Press
The Clarkston Police Department received free automated license plate readers from RedSpeed in 2019 as part of a "School Zone Speed Safety Program."
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Clarkston Police Department Facebook Page
DeKalb County Police Department
The DeKalb County Police Department acquired Flock automated license plate readers in 2019. In 2020, the police received $58,500 to install additional units in District 4.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): DeKalb County GeorgiaThe Altanta Journal-ChroniclePatch
In 2016, DeKalb County Police Department purchased 600 Utlity body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Utlity
Georgia State University Police Department
The Georgia State University Police Department began using body-worn cameras in 2016.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The SignalFacebook
Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice
The Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice uses body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): This is the official website for the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice (this specific link is a pdf download).Department's Facebook Page
Lithonia Police Department
The Lithonia Police Department purchased body-worn cameras in 2019.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The ChampionACJ
Agnes Scott College Department of Public Safety
Police officers with the Agnes Scott College Department of Public Safety wear Axon body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Agnes Scott College Police Facebook page
DeKalb County Marshal's Office
The DeKalb County Marshal's Office fully implemented its body-worn camera program in 2019.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): DeKalb CountyAtlanta. News. Now.
Pine Lake Police Department
The Pine Lake Police Department purchased an automated license plate reader for $16,000 in 2017.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of Pine LakeCity of Pine Lake
Avondale Estates Police Department
The Avondale Estates Police Department has used automated license plate readers since 2013 and upgraded the ALPRs in 2017.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Avondale EstatesAvondale Estates
The Avondale Estates Police Department began using Axon body-worn cameras in 2016.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): DecaturishNews from City Hall
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026