Cumberland County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Cumberland 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
Hope Mills Police Department
The Hope Mills Police Department operates 36 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Fayetteville Police Department
The Fayetteville Police Department operates 60 license plate readers and plans to expand its ALPR inventory to 128 cameras at a cost of $8.2 million as of May 2025. The agency began using ALPR technology in 2013.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of Fayetteville, NC GovernmentACLU-NCCBS17
The Fayetteville Police Department entered into a one-year contract for gunshot detection technology services with ShotSpotter for $197,500 in August 2022. The Fayetteville City Council approved $210,000 for a one-year renewal to the ShotSpotter contract in 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CityViewCity of FayettevilleCity of Fayetteville
The Fayetteville Police Department utilizes the Fusus camera registry.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of Fayetteville
The Fayetteville Department has a real time crime center.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Fayetteville Police Department's Facebook page
The Fayetteville Police Department uses Clearview AI face recognition software.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Fayetteville Police Department
The Fayetteville Police Department operates two DJI drones as of 2018, 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.wral.com
The Fayetteville Police Department received a $530,000 grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance to purchase 250 body-worn cameras in 2015.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Fayetteville ObserverThe Fayetteville Observer
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026