Forsyth County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Forsyth 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
Cumming Police Department
The Cumming Police Department operates two Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The Cumming Police Department has a real-time crime center.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Appen Media
The Cumming Police Department purchased 16 Axon body-worn cameras in 2019.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Forsyth County News
Forsyth County Sheriff's Office
The Forsyth County Sheriff's Office entered a 60-month contract for 79 Flock Safety Falcon license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Forsyth County
The Forsyth County Sheriff's Office operates one DJI Inspire 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.facebook.com
The Forsyth County Sheriff's Office maintains a community camera registry via Axon.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Forsyth County Sheriff
The Forsyth County Sheriff's Office operates a real-time crime center.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Forsyth County Sheriff
The Forsyth County Sheriff's Office uses gunshot detection technology.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Forsyth County Sheriff
Forsyth Sheriff's Department
Forsyth County, GA has worked with PredPol (now Geolitica).
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office
The Forsyth County Sheriff's Office obtained Axon body-worn cameras as early as 2016.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Winston-Salem JournalThe Forsyth County Sheriff's OfficeGwinnet Daily Post
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026