Campbell County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Campbell 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
Southgate Police Department
The Southgate Police Department operates six Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Northern Kentucky University Police Department
The Northern Kentucky University Police Department was awarded funding from The Body Worn Camera Policy and Implementation program (BWC PIP) in 2018, totaling $14,045 for the purpose of purchasing body-worn cameras for their officers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Department of Justice Bureau of Justice AssistanceThe Northerner
Fort Thomas Police Department
The U.S. Department of Justice awarded $5,893 to the Fort Thomas 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
Bellevue Police Department
The Bellevue Police Department began using body-worn cameras in 2013.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Cincinnati.com
Cold Spring Police Department
The Cold Spring Police Department began using body-worn cameras in 2011.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Cincinnati.com
Park Hills Police Department
The Park Hills Police Department began using body-worn cameras in November 2015.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Cincinnati.com
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026