St. Joseph County
County record. Includes every city and agency within St. Joseph 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
Saint Joseph County Police Department
The Saint Joseph County Police Department operates 25 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Lakeville Police Department
The Lakeville Police Department operates two Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Mishawaka Police Department
The Mishawaka Police Department operates 18 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Roseland Police Department
The Roseland Police Department operates four Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Walkerton Police Department
The Walkerton Police Department operates eight Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
South Bend Police Department
The South Bend Police Department uses SoundThinking's ResourceRouter.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): SoundThinkingSoundThinking
The South Bend Police Department opened its real-time crime center in December 2023. It tuns on Fusus software and includes surveillance cameras, automated license plate readers, ShotSpotter, face recognition technology and the capacity to connect to door bell caneras and business camera feeds.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): South Bend Tribune
The South Bend Police Department began using face recognition technology as part of its real-time crime center project.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): South Bend Tribune
The South Bend Police Department has operated private camera registry systems through Fusus and Motorola.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WSBTSouth Bend Police DepartmentMotorola Solutions
The South Bend Police Department has used automated license plate readers since at least 2014. As of 2022, SBPD used Flock Safety ALPRs.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WNDUSouth Bend Tribune
The South Bend Police Department began using ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology in 2013.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Official Budget Report for the South Bend police Department for the fiscal year of 2019South Bend TribuneShotSpotter's official site
The South Bend Police Department acquired BodyWorn body-worn cameras in 2018.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): South Bend government websiteThe Indianapolis Star
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026