Elkhart County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Elkhart 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
Elkhart County Sheriff's Office
The Elkhart County Sheriff's Office operates 12 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The Elkhart County Sheriff's Office initially used body-worn cameras in 2014, suspended the program in 2017, and reinstated the use of BodyWorn body-worn cameras for $976,000 in 2019.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Elkhart TruthThe Goshen News
Elkhart Police Department
The Elkhart Police Department operates 30 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The Elkhart Police Department uses Flock Safety's Raven gunshot detection technology.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WNDU
The Elkhart Police Department operates one drone as of 2017, 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 Collegewsbt.com
The Elkhart Police Department purchased 80 body cameras from Digital Ally in 2015, however due to technical problems the company agree to replace them in 2017.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): 16 News Now WNDU
Bristol Police Department
The Bristol Police Department operates five Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Middlebury Police Department
The Middlebury Police Department operates two Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Nappanee Police Department
The Nappanee Police Department operates seven Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Wakarusa Police Department
The Wakarusa Police Department installed four Flock Safety automated license plate readers in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): 953MNC
Goshen Police Department
The Goshen Police Department has used body-worn cameras since 2014, but suspended the use of them for a time in 2017. In 2019, Goshen purchased new body-worn cameras for $471,000. The agency received a $19,600 grant for body-worn cameras from the Indiana Department of Homeland Security in 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Goshen NewsGoshen NewsIndiana Department of Homeland Security
The Goshen Police Department installed Flock Safety automated license plate readers in 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WVPE
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026