Hinds County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Hinds 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
Jackson Police Department
The Jackson Police Department operates 17 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The Jackson Police Department received city council approval to purchase Flock Safety Raven gunshot detection equipment in April 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WLBT
The Jackson Police Department plans to use face recognition software.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): ID Tech
The Jackson Police Department launched a real-time crime center in 2019.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WAPTWLBT 3www.fusus.com
The Jackson Police Department uses Getac body-worn cameras. The department was one of 65 law enforcement agencies whose body-worn camera policy was analyzed by the ACLU of Mississippi in 2017.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): GetacBureau of Justice Assistance
Mississippi Department of Public Safety Office of Homeland Security
The Mississippi Department of Public Safety Office of Homeland Security had 19 automated license plate reader systems installed throughout the state as of 2017.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WDAM 7
Mississippi Highway Patrol
The Mississippi Highway Patrol had three automated license plate reader systems as of 2017.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WDAM 7
Byram Police Department
The Byram Police Department uses body-worn cameras. The department was one of 65 law enforcement agencies whose body-worn camera policy was analyzed by the ACLU of Mississippi in 2017.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): ACLU of MississippiACLU of Mississippi
Clinton Police Department
The Clinton Police Department acquired 40 BodyWorn body-worn cameras in 2016.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WLBT3
Hinds County Sheriff's Office
The Hinds County Sheriff's Office uses Wolfcom body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Hinds County
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026