Jefferson County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Jefferson 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
Louisville Metropolitan Police Department
Louisville Metropolitan Police Department has been using drones since at least 2024 and launched a drone as first responder program in 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WDRBWAVE 3Louisville Public Media
Jefferson County Sheriff's Office
The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office operates 14 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Jeffersontown Police Department
The Jeffersontown Police Department operates 32 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The Jeffersontown Police Department operates one 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 Collegewww.faa.gov
Indian Hills Police Department
The Indian Hills Police Department operates 12 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Louisville International Airport Police Department And Fire
The Louisville International Airport Police Department And Fire operates 13 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Shively Police Department
The Shively Police Department operates 15 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
University of Louisville Police Department
The University of Louisville Police Department operates 15 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Louisville Metro Police Department
The Louisville Metro Police Department uses Axon's camera registry.
The Louisville Metro Police Department has used automated license plate readers since at least 2007.
In August 2022,the Jefferson Mall installed surveillance cameras with facial recognition technology that can be monitored by the Louisville Metro Police Department.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WDRB
In 2017, the Louisville Metro Police Department spent $479,000 on ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology. The next year, the agency announced plans to dispatch drones to respond to ShotSpotter alerts.
The Louisville Metro Police Department launched a $3-million body-worn camera program in 2015.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WFPL
The Louisville Metro Police Department has used predictive policing technology since 2016.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): LouisvilleKY.govWave 3 News
The Louisville Metro Police Department has operated a real-time crime center since 2014.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Louisville Future
St. Matthews Police Department
The St. Matthews Police Department has implemented a policy for using face recognition technology.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The St. Matthews Police DepartmentKentucky Justice & Public Safety Cabinet
The St. Matthews Police Department received a Small, Rural, and Tribal Body-Worn Camera Program grant for $88,000 for 44 body-worn cameras in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Justice & Security StrategiesJustice & Security Strategies
The St. Matthews Police Department plans to install Flock Safety cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WHAS 11
Lyndon Police Department
The Lyndon Police Department has implemented a policy for using face recognition technology.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Lyndon Police DepartmentKentucky Justice & Public Safety Cabinet
Middletown Police Department
The Middletown Police Department has implemented a policy for using face recognition technology.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Middletown Police DepartmentKentucky Justice & Public Safety Cabinet
Hillview Police Department
In 2014, the Hillview Police Department purchased body-worn cameras from Axon.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Axon press release
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026