Johnson County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Johnson 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
North Liberty Police Department
The North Liberty Police Department installed Flock Safety automated license plate readers in January 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): North Liberty
The North Liberty Police Department has been using body-worn cameras since at leat 2015. The U.S. Department of Justice awarded $14,910 to the North Liberty Police Department in 2016 as part of the Bureau of Justice Assistance's body-worn camera grant program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Telegraph HeraldU.S Department of Justice
University of Iowa Police Department
As of April 2024, the University of Iowa Police Department operates 30 Flock Safety automated license plate readers. The agency stores ALPR data for 30 days.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Flock SafetyThe News & ObserverThe News & Observer
The University of Iowa Department of Public Safety began using Vievu body-worn cameras in 2011.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Des Moines RegisterThe Gazette
Iowa City Police Department
The Iowa City Police Department announced a voluntary camera registry in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Iowa City Police Department
The Iowa City Police Department has been using body-worn cameras since 2015.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Telegraph Herald
University of Iowa Parking and Transportation
University of Iowa Parking and Transportation uses automated license plate readers for parking enforcement.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The University of Iowa Parking and Transportation
Johnson County Sheriff's Office
The Johnson County Sheriff's Office adopted a body-worn camera policy in 2015.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Johnson County Sheriff's Office
The Johnson County Sheriff's Office operates a voluntary camera registry.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Johnson County
Coralville Police Department
The Coralville Police Department has been using body-worn cameras since at least 2015.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Telegraph Herald
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026