Henry County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Henry 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
McDonough Police Department
The McDonough Police Department operates 52 Flock Safety automated license plate readers, plus four additional Redspeed cameras, as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The McDonough Police Department purchased 10 body-worn cameras in 2019.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of McDonough
The McDonough Police Department purchased a drone in 2019.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of McDonough
Locust Grove Police Department
The Locust Grove Police Department operates 10 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Henry County Police Department
The Henry County Police Department has installed 105 Flock Safety automated license plate readers, according to data obtained in July 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Muckrock
The Henry County Police Department received a $1,650,000 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 Henry County Police Department uses a DJI Phantom 3 drone and a Maxsur Seeker drone equipped with a thermal camera.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Henry HeraldCenter for the Study of the Drone at Bard Collegewww.henryherald.com
The Henry County Police Deparmtnet uses Visual Labs smartphone-based body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Visual Labs
The Henry County Police Department maintains a camera registry via Axon.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Axon
Henry County Sheriff's Office
The Henry County Sheriff's Office got approval from the Georgia Department of Transportation in October 2024 to install six automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Georgia Department of Transportation
Hampton Police Department
The Hampton Police Department got approval from the Georgia Department of Transportation in December 2022 to install three automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Georgia Department of Transportation
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026