Pitt County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Pitt 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
Winterville Police Department
The Winterville Police Department operates six Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Ayden Police Department
The Ayden Police Department requires a segment of its officers to wear body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Ayden Police Department
East Carolina University Parking and Transporation Services
East Carolina University Parking and Transporation Services planned to install automated license plate readers on department vehicles in November 2020.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): ECU Board of TrusteesECU Board of Trustees
Greenville Police Department
The Greenville Police Department operates three DJI drones as of 2017, 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.reflector.com
The Greenville Police Department began using ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology in 2018. The department spent $225,000 on the initial 3-year contract.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The East CarolinianAmerican Security TodayWITN
The Greenville Police Department implemented body-worn cameras in 2017, starting with 200 Coban-brand cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Daily ReflectorGreenville News (part of USA Today)
East Carolina University Police Department
The East Carolina University Police Department began using body-worn cameras in 2017.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WCTI 12East Carolina University Police Department
The Greenville Police Department, East Carolina University Police Department, Vidant Medical Center, Greenville Housing Authority and the Pitt County Sheriff’s Office share ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): East Carolinian
Pitt Community College Police Department
The Pitt Community College Police Department uses body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WITN
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026