Houston County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Houston 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
Warner Robins Police Department
Warner Robins Police Department uses the Fusus camera registry system.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): 404 Media
The Warner Robins Police Department scanned 136,407 license plates in 2018 using Vigilant Solutions automated license plate readers and was planning to install Flock Safety ALPRs in 2022.
Perry Police Department
The Perry Police Department received a $1,572,329 Community Public Safety Grant in 2023, which the agency planned to use for Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): State of GeorgiaPerry Police Department
The Perry Police Department received a $1,572,329 Community Public Safety Grant in 2023, which the agency planned to use for a Fusus camera registry.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): State of GeorgiaPerry Police Department
Houston County Sheriff's Office
The Houston County Sheriff's Office has access to automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): 13 WMAZ
The Houston County Sheriff's Office operates one DJI Inspire drone as of 2019, 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.mrt.com
Houston County District Attorney's Office
In December 2022, the Houston County Board of Commissioners approved a cross-agency plan to install Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The TelegraphHouston County Board of Commisioners
Centerville Police Department
The Centerville Police Department purchased 12 CopTrax "smart glasses" in 2015.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Telegraph
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026