Northampton County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Northampton 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
Bethlehem Township Police Department
Bethlehem Township Police Department received $7,308 to purchase 24 body-worn cameras through the Small, Rural and Tribal Body-Worn Camera program in 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): SRT BWC Program
The Bethlehem Township Police Department uses automated license plate readers, according to a 2017 video.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Bethlehem Township
Lower Saucon Township Police Department
The Lower Saucon Township Police Department uses Motorola body-worn cameras as of December 2024. The agency previously purchased WatchGuard Vista body-worn cameras for $44,007 in January 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Saucon SourceLower Saucon TownshipLower Saucon Township Newsletter
The Lower Saucon Township Police Departmentoperates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCH
Bethlehem Police Department
The Bethlehem Police Department operates one DJI Phantom drone as of 2015, according to data compiled by the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard Collegeregistry.faa.gov
The Bethlehem Police Department purchased 120 Motorola body-worn cameras in 2019 after receiving a $90,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Facebook
Bethlehem's Police Department received a grant to purchase a mobile license plate reader in 2019.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): U.S. Bureau of Justice AssistanceBethlehem Police Department
The Bethlehem Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of Bethlehem
Lehigh University Police Department
The Lehigh University Police Department operates one DJI Inspire drone as of 2016, according to data compiled by the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard Collegewww.wfmz.com
The Lehigh Police Department has been using body-worn cameras since 2014.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Brown and White
Easton Police Department
The Easton Police Department purchased 61 body-worn Cameras in 2019.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Morning Call
In 2017, the Mayor of Easton approved a surveillance camera plan to "flood the West Ward with license plate recognition software" so the Easton Police Department can "record every single vehicle."
The Easton Police Department operates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCH
Colonial Regional Police Department
The Colonial Regional Police Department began using 11 body-worn cameras in 2017.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Morning Call
Bangor Borough Police Department
The Bangor Borough Police Department operates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCH
Forks Township Police Department
The Forks Township Police Department operates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCH
Nazareth Borough Police Department
The Nazareth Borough Police Departmentoperates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCH
Palmer Township Police Department
The Palmer Township Police Departmentoperates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCH
State Belt Regional Police Department
The State Belt Regional 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