Lawrence County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Lawrence 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
New Castle Police Department
The New Castle Police Department has been using Axon body-worn cameras since 2019.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Castle Police DepartmentWFMJ
The New Castle Police Department received approval for the purchase of one replacement drone using forfeiture funds in November 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Castle News
The New Castle Police Department was approved in 2020 to purchase 32 cameras through Project NOLA National Crime Camera Program. The cameras cost $4,800 along with a $5,760 annual fee for monitoring the cameras. The agency planned to spend $1,950 on build a real-time crime center room in its headquarters. The system was paid for with asset forfeiture funds.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): NC News
Shenango Township Police Department
The Shenango Township Police Department received approval for the purchase of 11 body-worn cameras in January 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Castle News
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026