Dauphin County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Dauphin 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
Pennsylvania State Police
The Pennsylvania State Police purchased a CSS vehicle from Jacobs Technology in 2024 and had previously upgraded its Stingray II cell-site simulator to a Hailstorm system in 2013.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pennsylvania State PoliceMuckRockVocativ
The Pennsylvania State Police purchased its first 30 body-worn cameras from WatchGuard in 2017 with a $52,000 federal grant.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): 90.5 WESA FMPennsylvania State PoliceThe Morning Call
Derry Township Police Department
Derry Township Police Department received $10,020 to purchase 10 body-worn cameras through the Small, Rural and Tribal Body-Worn Camera program in 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): SRT BWC Program
The Derry Township Police Department operates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCH
Lower Paxton Township Police Department
The Lower Paxton Township Police Department has been using body-worn cameras since at least 2019.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Lower Paxton Township Police Department FacebookCity of HarrisburgLower Paxton Township Board of Supervisors
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation shares access to its photo repository via the Pennsylvania Justice Network, which is open “to any municipal, county, state or federal law enforcement agency” in the state. A variety of federal agencies also have access, including FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Electronic Frontier FoundationGovernment Accountability Office
In 2017, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation switched from registration stickers to automated license plate reader technology.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Philly VoicePennDOTPenn Live
Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency
The U.S. Department of Justice awarded $2,375,617 to the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency from 2018-2019 as part of the Bureau of Justice Assistance's body-worn camera grant program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): U.S Department of JusticeU.S Department of Justice
Pennsylvania Justice Network
Since 2006, the Pennsylvania Justice Network (JNET) has managed face recognition software across police departments in Pennsylvania. The JNET uses Cognitec, NEC, and MorphoTrust algorithms.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): State Watch
Harrisburg Bureau of Police
The Harrisburg Bureau of Policeoperates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCH
Highspire Borough Police Department
The Highspire Borough Police Departmentoperates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCH
Hummelstown Borough Police Department
The Hummelstown Borough Police Department operates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCH
Lower Swatara Township Police Department
The Lower Swatara Township Police Departmentoperates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCH
Middletown Borough Police Department
The Middletown Borough Police Departmentoperates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCH
Steelton Borough Police Department
The Steelton Borough Police Departmentoperates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCH
Swatara Police Department
The Swatara Police Department operates 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