County record · Georgia

Muscogee County

5 Deployments on record

2 Agencies

5 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 · 1 Cell-site simulators · none on record Predictive policing · none on record Social-media monitoring · none on record

The record, by agency

Columbus Police Department

Columbus · 4 deployments · on UnGovr: City of Columbus

ALPR

The Columbus Police Department got approval from the Georgia Department of Transportation in to install automated license plate readers.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Georgia Department of Transportation

Doorbell & camera registry Vendor: Motorola Solutions

The Columbus Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras through Motorola Solutions' CityProtect platform.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CityProtect

Drones / UAS

The Columbus Police Department uses drones.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): News 3 Columbus Police Department

Fixed cameras & RTCC

The Columbus Police Department has a real time crime center.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Columbus Police Department Facebook Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

Columbus State University Police Department

Columbus · 1 deployment

Body-worn & dashcam

The Columbus State University Police Department has been using body-worn cameras since 2009 and upgraded the cameras in 2014.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WTVM9

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