Butler County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Butler 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
Slippery Rock University Police Department
The Slippery Rock University Police Department received $15,000 to purchase 15 body-worn cameras through the Small, Rural and Tribal Body-worn Camera Program in 2024. The agency applied for grants to cover the $100,000 cost to outfit their officers with body-worn cameras in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Trib LiveSRT BWC Program
Zelienople Borough Police Department
The Zelienople Borough Police Department received a Small, Rural, and Tribal Body-Worn Camera Program grant for $15,015 for 10 body-worn cameras in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Justice & Security StrategiesJustice & Security Strategies
Slippery Rock Police Department
The Slippery Rock Police Department began using automated license plate readers in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Allied News
The Slippery Rock Police Department began using body-worn cameras in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Allied News
Cranberry Township Police Department
The Cranberry Township Police Department was given a grant of $33,600 for body-worn cameras in 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Butler RadioPennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency
Butler City Police Department
The Butler City Police Department began using body-worn cameras in 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Butler RadioButler Radio
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026