County record · Kentucky

Franklin County

6 Deployments on record

3 Agencies

5 Technology categories

Technology presence

ALPR · 1 Fixed cameras & RTCC · none on record Face recognition · 1 Drones / UAS · 1 Gunshot detection · none on record Body-worn & dashcam · 2 Doorbell & camera registry · 1 Cell-site simulators · none on record Predictive policing · none on record Social-media monitoring · none on record

The record, by agency

Kentucky State Police

Frankfort · 3 deployments

ALPR

The Kentucky State Police uses automated license plate readers.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): ACLU WDRB

Body-worn & dashcam Vendor: Motorola

The Kentucky State Police purchased 780 Motorola body-worn cameras in 2023.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WHAS 11

Drones / UAS Vendor: DJI

The Kentucky State Police Department operates one DJI Phantom drone, 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 College www.MuckRock.com

Frankfort Police Department

Frankfort · 2 deployments · on UnGovr: City of Frankfort

Body-worn & dashcam

The U.S. Department of Justice awarded $47,750 to the Frankfort Police Department in 2019 as part of the Bureau of Justice Assistance's body-worn camera grant program.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): U.S Department of Justice

Doorbell & camera registry

The Frankfort Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of Frankfort

Kentucky Transportation Cabinet

Frankfort · 1 deployment

Face recognition

The Kentucky Department of Motor Vehicles responds to face recognition requests from FBI’s FACE Services Unit

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Electronic Frontier Foundation Government Accountability Office

Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026