Beaver County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Beaver 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
Chippewa Township Police Department
The Chippewa Township Police Department operates three Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The Chippewa Township Police Department received a $196,800 grant from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency to purchase body-worn cameras and in-car cameras in December 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Beaver County Times
Center Township Police Department
The Center Township Police Department purchased twenty body-worn cameras for $32,000 in 2018.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The TimesCenter Twp. Police Dept.'s Facebook page
Beaver County Sheriff's Office
The U.S. Department of Justice awarded $36,750 to the Beaver County Sheriff's Office in 2018 as part of the Bureau of Justice Assistance's body-worn camera grant program. The Beaver County Sheriff's Office also received a Small, Rural, and Tribal Body-Worn Camera Program grant for $7,993 for 10 body-worn cameras in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): U.S Department of JusticeJustice & Security StrategiesJustice & Security Strategies
Darlington Township Police Department
The Darlington Township Police Department received a Small, Rural, and Tribal Body-Worn Camera Program grant for $6,150.00 for 3 body-worn cameras in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Justice & Security StrategiesJustice & Security Strategies
Pulaski Township Police Department
Pulaski Township Police Department received $8,000 to purchase eight body-worn cameras through the Small, Rural and Tribal Body-Worn Camera program in 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): SRT BWC Program
Rochester Township Police Department
The Rochester Township Police Department received $88,000 from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency to purchase body-worn cameras and in-car camera in 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Beaver County Times
Shippingport Borough Police Department
The Shippingport Borough Police Department ordered five cameras using a $2,000 using a grant from Walmart around 2017.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The TimesShippingport Borough Police Department
Beaver County District Attorney's Office
More than 45 license plate readers have been installed at intersections in Beaver County at the behest of the Beaver County District Attorney's Office.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WPXI
Hopewell Township Police Department
The Hopewell Township Police Department received $9,293 from the Bureau of Justice Assistance to purchase 15 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
Aliquippa Police Department
The Aliquippa Police Department received approval to wear body-worn cameras in October 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Beaver County Radio
Ambridge Police Department
The Ambridge Police Department received a $46,500 matching grant from the state Commission on Crime and Delinquency to purchase twenty-five body-worn cameras in May 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Beaver County Times
New Brighton Area Police Department
The New Brighton Area Police Department received $15,610 for body-worn cameras from the Bureau of Justice Assistance in 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Office of Representative Bernstine
New Sewickley Township Police Department
The New Sewickley Township Police Department uses Coban body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Beaver County TimesBeaver Valley Police Chiefs
Midland Borough Police Department
The Midland Borough Police Department began its body-worn camera program in the late 2000s. The agency also received nearly $160,000 from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency for new body-worn cameras in 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Times
Borough of Beaver
Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.
Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory
Borough of Bridgewater
Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.
Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory
Borough of Economy
Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.
Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory
Borough of Koppel
Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.
Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory
Borough of Monaca
Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.
Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory
Borough of New Brighton
Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.
Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory
Borough of Ohioville
Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.
Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory
Borough of Rochester
Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.
Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory
Borough of South Heights
Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.
Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory
Brighton Township
Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.
Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory
City of Beaver Falls
Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.
Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory
Harmony Township
Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.
Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory
North Sewickley Township
Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.
Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory
Patterson Township
Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.
Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory
Raccoon Township
Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.
Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory
South Beaver Township
Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.
Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory
Sources: FBI Crime Data Explorer · EFF Atlas of Surveillance