Crawford County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Crawford 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
Meadville Police Department
The Meadville Police Department purchased body-worn cameras with an approximately $450,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency in April 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Meadville Tribune
Cambridge Springs Police Department
The Cambridge Springs Police Department uses WatchGuard Vista body-worn cameras. The agency purchased new body-worn cameras to replace outdated ones in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Meadville TribuneCambridge Springs Police Department's Facebook page
Titusville Police Department
The Titusville Police Department began maintaining a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras in March 2022
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Erie News Now
West Mead Township Police Department
The West Mead Township Police Department purchased WatchGuard Vista body-worn cameras in 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Meadville Tribune
Meadville City Police Department
The Meadville City Police Departmentoperates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCH
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026