Lehigh County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Lehigh 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
Whitehall Borough Police Department
The Whitehall Borough Police Department uses Motorola body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Patch.comWhitehall Borough Police Department Press ReleaseWhitehall Borough Police Department Facebook
Allentown Police Department
The Allentown Police Department received approval to install Flock Safety gunshot detection devices in 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Morning Call
The Allentown Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Morning Call
The Allentown Police Department purchased 150 body-worn cameras in November 2017 with help from a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice for $250,000.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Morning CallThe Morning CallU.S Department of Justice
Lehigh County Police Department
Lehigh County Police Department uses the Fusus camera registry system.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): 404 Media
Salisbury Township Police Department
The Salisbury Township Police Department currently uses WatchGuard body-worn cameras. The Salisbury Township Police Department also received a Small, Rural, and Tribal Body-Worn Camera Program grant for $21,000 for 21 body-worn cameras in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Salisbury TownshipSalisbury Township Police DepartmentJustice & Security Strategies
The Salisbury Township Police Department acquired an automated license plate reader in 2017 and budgeted to buy another in 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Salisbury TownshipLeonardo
Catasauqua Borough Police Department
The Catasauqua Borough Police Department received a Small, Rural, and Tribal Body-Worn Camera Program grant for $40,000 for 20 body-worn cameras in 2023. The agency has been using body-worn cameras since 2018.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Justice & Security StrategiesJustice & Security StrategiesCatasauqua Police Department Facebook
South Whitehall Township Police Department
The South Whitehall Township Police Department received permission from the Board of Commissioners in 2020 to purchase 20 WatchGuard body-worn cameras. The South Whitehall Township Police Department also received a Small, Rural, and Tribal Body-Worn Camera Program grant for $100,000 for 50 body-worn cameras in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): South Whitehall TownshipJustice & Security StrategiesJustice & Security Strategies
Lehigh County District Attorney
The Lehigh County District Attorney maintains a camera registry via Axon.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): AxonLehigh Valley News
Whitehall Township Police Department
The Whitehall Township Police Department deployed 46 Axon body-worn cameras in 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Morning CallWhitehall Township Police Department
The Whitehall Township Commission approved the purchase and installation of Elsag license plate readers in March 2018 and approved the installation of an additional ALPR the following year.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Whitehall Township Board of Commission Meeting MinutesWhitehall Township Board of Commission Meeting Minutes
Upper Saucon Township Police Department
The Upper Saucon Township Police Department has been using WatchGuard body-worn cameras since 2016.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Upper Saucon Township Police DepartmentUpper Saucon Township Police Department
Cleona Borough Police Department
The Cleona Borough Police Department received a $6,000 grant in 2021 to purchase body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency
Upper Saucon Police Department
Upper Saucon Township's 2017 budget identifies purchase of mobile license plate reader and related equipment using a $40,000 gaming grant.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Upper Saucon Township
The Upper Saucon 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