Marion County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Marion 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
Marion County Sheriff's Office
The Marion County Sheriff's Office operates nine Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The Marion County Sheriff's Office received a $168,000 grant for body-worn cameras from the Indiana Department of Homeland Security in 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Indiana Department of Homeland Security
Lawrence Police Department
The Lawrence Police Department operates 20 Flock Safety automated license plate readers, plus an additional 11 trailer-based ALPR cameras, as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The Lawrence Police Department has installed 58 Raven gunshot detection devices from Flock Safety as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The Lawrence Police Department operates six drones as of 2019, 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.wishtv.comyouarecurrent.com
The Lawrence Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras through Motorola Solutions' CityProtect platform.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CityProtect
Beech Grove Police Department
The Beech Grove Police Department operates four Condor cameras from Flock Safety as of September 2025. The cameras are paired with video analytics software.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The Beech Grove Police Department has installed 19 Raven gunshot detection devices from Flock Safety as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
This Beech Grove Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers, according to a Dec. 2021 report.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Indy Star
Cumberland Police Department
The Cumberland Police Department operates seven Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The U.S. Department of Justice awarded $17,255 to the Cumberland Police Department in 2016 as part of the Bureau of Justice Assistance's body-worn camera grant program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): U.S Department of Justice
Indiana Department of Correction
The Indiana Department of Correction operates 26 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The Indiana Department of Correction operates one drone as of 2019, 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.faa.gov
Speedway Police Department
The Speedway Police Department operates 13 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The Speedway Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras through Motorola Solutions' CityProtect platform.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CityProtect
Homecroft Police Department
The Homecroft Police Department operates six Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Indianapolis Airport Authority Police Department
The Indianapolis Airport Authority Police Department operates 27 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department began using drones in 2018. The agency expanded its drone program for $180,000 for 30 drones in April 2024.
The Indianapolis Police Department received a federal grant for ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Bureau of Justice Assistance, US Department of Justice
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers. Previously, the agencypaid $101,370 for a Vigilant Solutions automated license plate reader system in 2016.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WIBQIndianapolis Metropolitan Police DepartmentIndianapolis Police Department
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police first piloted a body-worn camera program in 2014 and now uses BodyWorn body-worn cameras for 1,100 officers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Indianapolis Government websiteIndyStarIndianapolis Metropolitan Police Department
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department acquired cell-site simulator technology in 2012, according data compiled by Kevin Collier for Vocativ.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): VocativKevin Collierwww.documentcloud.org
In November of 2016, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department paid $101,370 for a Vigilant Solutions automated license plate reader system that included Facesearch hosted facial recognition.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Indianapolis Police Department
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department maintains a registry of surveillance cameras voluntarily submitted by local residents and businesses.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): BlinkIndy
Indiana State Police
The Indiana State Police has a 4th generation cell-site simulator in a Chevrolet Silvarado acquired from KeyW, now Jacobs Technology.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Jacobs TechnologyKevin CollierIndianopolis Star
According to a list of Clearview AI clients obtained by Buzzfeed News, the Indiana State Police has run more than 5,700 scans with the face recognition technology. It was Clearview AI's first paying customer.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Buzzfeed News
The Indiana State Police scanned 244,683 license plates in 2019 using Vigilant Solutions automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): MuckRock
Indiana University Police Department
The Indiana University Police Department uses body-worn cameras on all three campuses: Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, Indiana University, and Indiana University Northwest.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Indiana University NewsIndyStarFox59
Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles
The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles responds to face recognition requests from FBI’s FACE Services Unit.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Electronic Frontier FoundationGovernment Accountability Office
Indiana Department of Natural Resources Law Enforcement Division
The Indiana Department of Natural Resources Law Enforcement Division operates four DJI drones as of 2016, 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.marketplace.org
Metropolitan School District of Lawrence Township
Lawrence Public Schools aquired gunshot detection through Utility in 2019.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WRTV ABCOfficer.com
Indiana Intelligence Fusion Center
The Indiana Intelligence Fusion Center uses Vigilant Solutions' face recognition technology.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Police One
The Indiana Intelligence Fusion Center scanned 565,765 license plates in 2017 using Vigilant Solutions automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): MuckRock
Indiana State Poilce
The Indiana State Police uses predictive policing software.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): State Scoop
Indianapolis Police Department
The Indianapolis Police Department has a real time crime center.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): LinkedIn
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026