County record · Georgia

Richmond County

4 Deployments on record

1 Agencies

4 Technology categories

Technology presence

ALPR · 1 Fixed cameras & RTCC · none on record Face recognition · none on record Drones / UAS · 1 Gunshot detection · none on record Body-worn & dashcam · 1 Doorbell & camera registry · none on record Cell-site simulators · none on record Predictive policing · 1 Social-media monitoring · none on record

The record, by agency

Richmond County Sheriff's Office

Augusta · 4 deployments · on UnGovr: Richmond County

ALPR Vendor: Vigilant Solutions

The Augusta-Richmond County Sheriff's Office scanned 465,010 license plates in 2017 using Vigilant Solutions automated license plate readers.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): MuckRock

Body-worn & dashcam

The Richmond County Sheriff's Office have used body-worn cameras since at least 2014. The agency received a $970,393 Community Public Safety Grant in 2023, which the agency planned to use for body-worn cameras.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): State of Georgia WRDW/WAGT 12 26 On Your Side JagWire Augusta University

Drones / UAS Vendor: DJI

The Richmond County Sheriff's Office operates one DJI Inspire drone as of 2018, 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 College www.wjbf.com

Predictive policing

The Richmond County Sheriff's Office received a $284,625 Community Public Safety Grant in 2023, which the agency planned to use for predictive policing technology.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): State of Georgia

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