Kenton County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Kenton 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
Lakeside Park-Crestview Hills Police Department
The Lakeside Park-Crestview Hills Police Department operates three Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The Lakeside Park-Crestview Hills Police Department began using body-worn cameras in 2010.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Cincinnati.com
Independence Police Department
The Independence Police Department operates 11 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Erlanger Police Department
The Erlanger Police Department installed four Flock Safety automated license plate readers in September 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WLWT 5
The Erlanger Police Department began using body-worn cameras in 2009.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Cincinnati.com
Fort Mitchell Police Department
The Fort Mitchell Police Department has implemented a policy for using face recognition technology.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Fort Mitchell Police DepartmentKentucky Justice & Public Safety Cabinet
Ludlow Police Department
The Ludlow Police Department has implemented a policy for using face recognition technology.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Ludlow Police DepartmentKentucky Justice & Public Safety Cabinet
Northern Kentucky Drug Strike Force
The Northern Kentucky Drug Strike Force has implemented a policy for using face recognition technology.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Northern Kentucky Drug Strike ForceKentucky Justice & Public Safety Cabinet
Alexandria Police Department
The Alexandria Police Department began using body-worn cameras in June 2015.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Cincinnati.com
Covington Police Department
The Covington Police Department uses body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Cincinnati.com
Fort Wright Police Department
The Fort Wright Police Department began using body-worn cameras in July 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