Erie County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Erie 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
Girard Borough Police Department
The Girard Police Department uses Motorola V300 body-worn cameras. The agency began using body-worn cameras in May 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Girard Borough CouncilGirard Borough Police Department's Facebook page
The Girard Police Department began operating automated license plate readers in April 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Girard Borough Council
Wesleyville Borough Police Department
The Wesleyville Police Department use Axon Body 3 body-worn camaeras. The agency began using body-worn cameras in 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Go ErieWesleyville Borough Police Department 's Facebook page
Corry Police Department
The Corry Police Department uses Pro-Vision Bodycam 4 body-worn cameras. The agency began using body-worn cameras in 2014. In 2021, the agency received eleven new body-worn cameras, video storage units, and 360-degree police car cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Corry JournalCity of Corry Police's Facebook page
Union City Police Department
The Union City Police Department uses Motorola V300 body-worn cameras. The agency purchased five body-worn cameras with a grant from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency in October 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Corry JournalUnion City Police Department's Facebook page
Erie Police Department
The Erie City Police Department implemented a gunshot detection system in August 2023. The agency spent $900,000 on the system over two years.
The Erie City Council approved a contract for body-worn cameras from Securewatch 24 in 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of Erie
The U.S. Department of Justice awarded $247,500 to the Erie 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
North East Police Department
The North East Police Department began using body-worn cameras in 2016.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): GoErieNorth East Police Department's Facebook page
Lawrence Park Township Police Department
The Lawrence Park Township Police Department began using body-worn cameras in 2010.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Erie News NowGoErie
Millcreek Township Police Department
The Millcreek Township signed a five-year contract to equip the police force with 32 WatchGuard body-worn cameras in 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Go Erie
Erie County District Attorney's Office
The Erie County District Attorney's Office operates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH. The agency began its camera registry program in June 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCHGo Erie
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026