Vanderburgh County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Vanderburgh 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
Evansville Police Department
The Evansville Police Department has been using Clearview AI's face recognition service as recently as January 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): MuckRock NewsAmerican City and County
As of July 2022, the Evansville Police Department has installed 55 Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City Observer
The Evansville Police Department has used drones since at least 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Evansville Police Department44News
Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office
The Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office entered into an agreement to use 17 Flock Safety automated license plate readers in November 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Courier & Press
The Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office received a $47,600 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 Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office operates one DJI Inspire 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 Collegeregistry.faa.gov
Highland Police Department
The Highland Police Department received a $32,000 grant for body-worn cameras from the Indiana Department of Homeland Security in 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Indiana Department of Homeland Security
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026