Portage County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Portage 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
Aurora Police Department
The Aurora Police Department has 4 Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Portager
The Aurora Police Department received a $55,092 grant for body-worn cameras from the Ohio Department of Public Safety in 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Ohio Department of Public SafetyOhio Governor's Office
Brimfield Police Department
The Brimfield Police Department operates four Flock Safety automated license plate readers and other cameras as of June 2025. The agency stores ALPR data for 30 days.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Flock SafetyThe Portager
The Brimfield Police Department received a $9,768 grant for body-worn cameras from the Ohio Department of Public Safety in 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Ohio Department of Public SafetyOhio Governor's Office
Ravenna Police Department
The Ravenna Police Department has 10 Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Portager
The Ravenna Police Department received a $7,347 grant for body-worn cameras from the Ohio Department of Public Safety in 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Ohio Department of Public SafetyOhio Governor's Office
Windham Police Department
The Windham Police Department has 6 Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Portager
The Windham Police Department received more than $14,000 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
Mogadore Village Police Department
The Mogadore Village Police Department has 2 Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Portager
Stow Police Department
The Stow Police Department has 16 Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Portager
Tallmadge Police Department
The Tallmadge Police Department has 16 Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Portager
Portage County Sheriff's Office
The Portage County Sheriff’s Office received more than $15,000 in grant funds for the Ohio's Governor's Office for body-worn cameras in 2023. The agency received a $141,931 grant for body-worn cameras from the Ohio Department of Public Safety in 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Ohio Department of Public SafetyOhio Governor's OfficeOhio Governor's Office
Mogadore Police Department
The Mogadore Police Department received a $13,689 grant for body-worn cameras from the Ohio Department of Public Safety in 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Ohio Department of Public SafetyOhio Governor's Office
Streetsboro Police Department
In January 2022, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine awarded $6,876.00 to the Streetsboro Police Department for expenses associated with launching or maintaining body-worn camera programs.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Office of the GovernorOffice of the Governor
The Streetsboro Police Department operates one DJI Phantom drone 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.cleveland19.comfox8.com
Kent State University Police Department
In January 2022, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine awarded $23,780.00 to the Kent State University Police Department for expenses associated with launching or maintaining body-worn camera programs.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Office of the GovernorOffice of the Governor
Kent Police Department
The Kent Police Department received $80,000 from the Bureau of Justice Assistance to purchase 40 body-worn cameras through the 2022 Small, Rural, Tribal BWC Microgrant program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Small, Rural, and Tribal Body-Worn Camera microgrant grantee list
The Kent Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras through its Community Camera program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Kent Police Department
Northeast Ohio Medical University Police Department
The U.S. Department of Justice awarded $10,000 to the Northeast Ohio Medical University Police Department in 2019 as part of the Bureau of Justice Assistance's body-worn camera grant program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): U.S Department of Justice
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026