County record · North Carolina

Avery County

2 Deployments on record

1 Agencies

2 Technology categories

Technology presence

ALPR · 1 Fixed cameras & RTCC · none on record Face recognition · none on record Drones / UAS · none on record Gunshot detection · none on record Body-worn & dashcam · 1 Doorbell & camera registry · none on record Cell-site simulators · none on record Predictive policing · none on record Social-media monitoring · none on record

The record, by agency

Avery County Sheriff's Office

Newland · 2 deployments · on UnGovr: Avery County

ALPR Vendor: Flock Safety

The Avery County Sheriff's Office operates nine Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department

Body-worn & dashcam

Avery County Sheriff's Office received $38,769 to purchase 20 body-worn cameras through the Small, Rural and TribalBody-worn Camera Program in 2024.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): SRT BWC Program

Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026