Hamilton County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Hamilton 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
Carmel Police Department
The Carmel Police Department operates 111 Flock Safety automated license plate readers, plus 24 additional ALPR-enabled cameras, as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The Carmel Police Department uses drones and has a drone-as-first responder program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WRTV
The Carmel Police Department purchased Axon 120 body-worn cameras in 2019 with the help of a $80,000 federal grant.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WTHR-13The CurrentCBS-4 Indiana
The Carmel Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras through Motorola Solutions' CityProtect platform.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CityProtect
Noblesville Police Department
The Noblesville Police Department operates 20 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The Noblesville Police Department acquired BodyWorn body-worn cameras for all 95 officers in 2020.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of NoblesvilleCurrentIndianapolis Star
The Noblesville Police Department started a camera registry in 2017.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WTHR
Cicero Police Department
The Cicero Police Department operates two Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The Cicero Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras through Motorola Solutions' CityProtect platform.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CityProtect
Westfield Police Department
The Westfield Police Department operates 18 Flock Safety automated license plate readers, plus another 115 cameras at the Grand Park Event Center, as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Hamilton County Sheriff's Office
The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office received a $63,200 grant for body-worn cameras from the Indiana Department of Homeland Security in 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Indiana Department of Homeland Security
The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office uses Vigilant Solutions automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): ACLU Indiana
The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras through Motorola Solutions' CityProtect platform.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CityProtect
Fishers Police Department
The Fishers Police Department obtained automated license plate readers in 2020.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): RTV6 Indianapolis
The Fishers Police Department operates one DJI Phantom 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 Collegewww.fishers.in.us
The Fisher Police Department began testing body-worn cameras in 2018. In 2020, the agency planned to spend $1 million on 100 Axon BWCs.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Indy Star
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026