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
Kenner Police Department
The Kenner Police Department has a drone team.
The Kenner Police Department purchased 55 Flock Safety Automated License Plate Readers in 2022, for a total of 93 cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Nola.com
In 2022, the Kenner Police Department initiated a 10-year, $5.5 million contract to purchase Axon body-worn cameras and other equipment. The Kenner Police Department plans to equip 140 officers with body-worn cameras by 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Nola.com
Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office
The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office signed an $8.5 million, five-year contract with Axon for 500 body-worn cameras and 277 patrol vehicle cameras in June 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Times Picayune
Jefferson Parish Sheriff's office purchased a three-year unlimited seat license at a cost of $75,000 in October 2020.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Jefferson Parish
The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office operates one DJI Phantom drone as of 2014, 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.nola.comwww.faa.gov
The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office owned 111 automatic license plate readers as of 2016.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): 4WWLThe Times Picayune
Westwego Police Department
The Westwego Police Department partnered with Project NOLA's real-time crime center program in 2014. The department has direct access to the cameras installed throughout the city.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): FOX8
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026