Lake County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Lake 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
Eastlake Police Department
The Eastlake Police Department received a $50,710 grant to purchase body-worn cameras in 2025 from the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Ohio Department of Public SafetyGovernor Mike DeWine's X account
Kirtland Hills Police Department
The Kirtland Hills Police Department received a $35,172 grant to purchase body-worn cameras in 2025 from the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Ohio Department of Public SafetyGovernor Mike DeWine's X account
Timberlake Police Department
The Timberlake Police Department received a $12,340 grant to purchase body-worn cameras in 2025 from the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Ohio Department of Public SafetyGovernor Mike DeWine's X account
Mentor-on-the-Lake Police Department
As of April 2024, the Mentor-on-the-Lake Police Department operates three Flock Safety automated license plate readers. The agency stores ALPR data for 30 days.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Flock SafetyThe News & ObserverThe News & Observer
In January 2022, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine awarded $53,273.75 to the Mentor-on-the-Lake Police Department for expenses associated with launching or maintaining body-wor n camera programs.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Office of the GovernorOffice of the Governor
Madison Village Police Department
The Madison Village Police Department received more than $39,000 in grant funds for the Ohio's Governor's Office for body-worn cameras in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Ohio Governor's OfficeWTVG
Perry Village Police Department
The Perry Village Police Department received more than $32,000 in grant funds for the Ohio's Governor's Office for body-worn cameras in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Ohio Governor's OfficeWTVG
Lake County Sheriff's Office
The Lake County Sheriff's Office partnered with the Concord, Painesville and Perry townships to install Flock Safety automated license plate readers. The agency has been using automated license plate readers since 2010.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): News HeraldHomeland Security NewseireLake County Sheriff's Office
Willowick Police Department
The Willowick Police Department installed three Flock Safety automated license plate readers in October 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Yahoo News
The Willowick Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of Willowick
Willoughby Police Department
The Willougby Police Department uses automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Akron Beacon JournalNews 5 Cleveland
Mentor Police Department
The Solon Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Akron Advocate
The Mentor Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of Mentor
Kirtland Police Department
In January 2022, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine awarded $6,748.00 to the Kirtland Police for expenses associated with launching or maintaining body-worn camera programs.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Office of the GovernorOffice of the Governor
Willoughby Hills Police Department
The Willoughby Hills Police Department began using Flock Safety automated license plate readers in 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Herald
Lake County Public Safety Office
The Lake County Public Safety Office operates five DJI drones, 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.news5cleveland.com
Wickliffe Police Department
The Wickliffe Police Department purchased four body-worn cameras in 2020.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Wickliffe Police Department
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026