Lafayette County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Lafayette 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
Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office
The Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office operates 18 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office announced the implementation of a real time crime center in January 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office
The Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office had 84 body-worn cameras, according to a 2019 survey.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Criminal Justice
Lafayette Police Department
As of April 2024, the Lafayette Police Department operates Flock Safety automated license plate readers. The agency stores ALPR data for 30 days.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Flock SafetyThe News & ObserverThe News & Observer
The Lafayette Police Department utilizes the Fusus camera registry.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): MuckRockThe Acadiana Advocate
The Lafayette Police Department acquired 60 Axon body-worn cameras in 2016 with plans to acquire 90 more the following year.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Acadiana AdvocateThe Acadiana Advocate
University of Louisiana at Lafayette Police Department
As of April 2024, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Police Department operates 50 Flock Safety automated license plate readers. The agency stores ALPR data for 30 days.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Flock SafetyThe News & ObserverThe News & Observer
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette Police Department had 48 body-worn cameras, according to a 2019 survey.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Criminal Justice
Carencro Police Department
The Carencro Police Department had 28 body-worn cameras, according to a 2019 survey. The Carencro Police Department also received a Small, Rural, and Tribal Body-Worn Camera Program grant for $16,750 for 10 body-worn cameras in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Criminal JusticeJustice & Security StrategiesJustice & Security Strategies
Lafayette City Marshal's Office
The Lafayette City Marshal's Office received $34,315 from the Bureau of Justice Assistance to purchase 21 body-worn cameras through the 2022 Small, Rural, Tribal BWC Microgrant program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Small, Rural, and Tribal Body-Worn Camera microgrant grantee list
Broussard Police Department
The Broussard Police Department uses Axon body-worn cameras. The agency owned 35 body-worn cameras, according to a 2019 survey.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of BroussardBroussard Police Facebook pageLouisiana Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Criminal Justice
Duson Police Department
The Duson Police Department had 7 body-worn cameras, according to a 2019 survey.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Criminal Justice
Scott Police Department
The Scott Police Department had 24 body-worn cameras, according to a 2019 survey.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Criminal Justice
Youngsville Police Department
The Youngsville Police Department had 26 body-worn cameras, according to a 2019 survey.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Criminal Justice
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026