Northumberland County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Northumberland 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
Northumberland County Sheriff's Office
The Northumberland County Sheriff's Office received a Small, Rural and Tribal Body-Worn Camera Program grant for $1,954 for 4 body-worn cameras in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Justice & Security StrategiesJustice & Security Strategies
Mount Carmel Township Police Department
The Mount Carmel Township Police Department operates one Physical Sciences Inc InstantEye Mk-2 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 Collegewww.pennlive.com
Borough of Kulpmont
Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.
Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory
Borough of Milton
Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.
Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory
Borough of Mount Carmel
Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.
Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory
Borough of Northumberland
Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.
Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory
Borough of Riverside
Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.
Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory
Borough of Watsontown
Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.
Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory
City of Shamokin
Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.
Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory
City of Sunbury
Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.
Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory
Coal Township
Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.
Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory
Point Township
Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.
Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory
Ralpho Township
Nothing on the public record. The sources compiled so far document no surveillance technology here. That means none on record, not necessarily none in operation.
Agency name: FBI Crime Data Explorer agency directory
Sources: FBI Crime Data Explorer · EFF Atlas of Surveillance