East Baton Rouge County
County record. Includes every city and agency within East Baton Rouge 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
Zachary Police Department
The Zachary Police Department operates 13 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Central Police Department
The Central Police Department has 11 Flock Safety automated license plate readers and other cameras as of July 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Flock Safety
Baton Rouge Police Department
The Baton Rouge Police Department began using drones in January 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WBRZLousiana First News
The Baton Rouge Police Department opened its real-time crime center in 2019. The RTCC accesses with automated license plate readers, ShotSpotter gunshot detection sensors, traffic camera feeds and real-time analytics software including computer-aided dispatch. The Baton Rouge Police Department received a donation worth $495,000 from General Informatics to improve the RTCC in December 2019.
The Baton Rouge Police Department uses Shotspotter gunshot detection technology.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WAFB9The Advocate
The U.S. Department of Justice awarded $749,992 to the Baton Rouge Police Department in 2017 as part of the Bureau of Justice Assistance's body-worn camera grant program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): U.S Department of Justice
Southern University Police Department
The Southern University Police Department uses body-worn cameras. The Southern University Police Department also received a Small, Rural, and Tribal Body-Worn Camera Program grant for $15,000 for 10 body-worn cameras in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Southern University and A&M CollegeJustice & Security StrategiesJustice & Security Strategies
The Southern University Police Department uses automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Southern University and A&M College
Louisiana State Analytical and Fusion Exchange
The Louisiana State Analytical and Fusion Exchange has licensed face recognition software from Idemia and permits departments within the state to request to use it.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Protocol
East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office
The East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office a 5-year, $2.5 million contract with Axon to purchase 175 body-worn cameras in 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Advocate
The East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office operates three DJI drones as of 2016, 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
The East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office uses automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Advocate
Louisiana State Police
Louisiana paid Clearview A.I. for their face recognition services from 2020-2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): ACLUcheckbook.la.gov
Louisiana Department of Justice
The Louisiana Department of Justice acquired a Kingfisher cell-site simulator from Harris Corp. in 2011, according to research by Kevin Collier for Vocativ.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): VocativKevin CollierTenth Amendment Center
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026