Salem County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Salem 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
Salem County Sheriff’s Office
The Salem County Sheriff’s Office has an automated license plate reader program, according to an audit released in July 2025 by the New Jersey State Police.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Jersey State Police
Salem Police Department
The Salem Police Department has an automated license plate reader program, according to an audit released in July 2025 by the New Jersey State Police.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Jersey State Police
The Salem City Police Department has 18 body-worn cameras, according to a 2020 survey from New Jersey Attorney General's Office.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Jersey Attorney General's OfficeNew Jersey Attorney GeneralNew Jersey Attorney General
Carneys Point Police Department
The Carneys Point Police Department has an automated license plate reader program, according to an audit released in July 2025 by the New Jersey State Police.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Jersey State Police
Elmer Boro Police Department
The Elmer Boro Police Department has an automated license plate reader program, according to an audit released in July 2025 by the New Jersey State Police.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Jersey State Police
Penns Grove Police Department
The Penns Grove Police Department has an automated license plate reader program, according to an audit released in July 2025 by the New Jersey State Police.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Jersey State Police
Pennsville Police Department
The Pennsville Police Department has an automated license plate reader program, according to an audit released in July 2025 by the New Jersey State Police.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Jersey State Police
Woodstown Boro Police Department
The Woodstown Boro Police Department has an automated license plate reader program, according to an audit released in July 2025 by the New Jersey State Police.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Jersey State Police
Salem County Prosecutor’s Office
The Salem County Prosecutor’s Office received a $352,000 grant from the New Jersey Attorney General's Office in 2023 for automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Jersey Attorney General's Office
Salem County Prosecutor's Office
The Salem County Prosecutor's Office received $44,836 in 2021 from the New Jersey Attorney General's Office to purchase 22 body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WRNJNew Jersey Office of the Attorney General
Salem County Sheriff's Office
The Salem County Sheriff’s Office has 45 body-worn cameras, according to a 2020 survey from New Jersey Attorney General's Office.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Jersey Attorney General's OfficeNew Jersey Attorney GeneralNew Jersey Attorney General
Carney's Point Township Police Department
The Carneys Point Police Department has eight body-worn cameras, according to a 2020 survey from New Jersey Attorney General's Office.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Jersey Attorney General's OfficeNew Jersey Attorney GeneralNew Jersey Attorney General
Lower Alloways Creek Police Department
The Lower Alloways Creek Police Department has six body-worn cameras, according to a 2020 survey from New Jersey Attorney General's Office.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Jersey Attorney General's OfficeNew Jersey Attorney GeneralNew Jersey Attorney General
Penns Grove Borough Police Department
The Penns Grove Police Department has eight body-worn cameras, according to a 2020 survey from New Jersey Attorney General's Office.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Jersey Attorney General's OfficeNew Jersey Attorney GeneralNew Jersey Attorney General
Pennsville Township Police Department
The Pennsville Township Police Department has eight body-worn cameras, according to a 2020 survey from New Jersey Attorney General's Office.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Jersey Attorney General's OfficeNew Jersey Attorney GeneralNew Jersey Attorney General
Woodstown Police Department
The Woodstown Police Department has eight body-worn cameras, according to a 2020 survey from New Jersey Attorney General's Office.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Jersey Attorney General's Office
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026