York County
County record. Includes every city and agency within York 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
Northern York County Regional Police Department
The Northern York County Regional Police Department uses body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Local 21 NewsPolice1
The Northern York County Regional Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Northern York County Regional Police Department
York City Police Department
The York City Police Department uses Motorola body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): York Daily RecordYork City Police Department
The York City Police Departmentoperates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCH
West Manchester Township Police Department
The West Manchester Township Police Department purchased 26 WatchGuard body-worn cameras in 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): West Manchester Township Police DepartmentWest Manchester Township Police Department
The West Manchester Township Police Departmentoperates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCH
Hanover Borough Police Department
The Hanover Borough Police Department has been using body-worn cameras since 2016.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Philadelphia InquirerThe Evening Sun
The Hanover Borough Police Department operates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCH
Hellam Township Police Department
The Hellam Township Police Department has been using body-worn cameras since at least 2019 with an inital budget of $50,000.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): York DispatchHellam Township Police Facebook
Spring Garden Township Police Department
The Spring Garden Township Police Departmentoperates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCH
Springettsbury Township Police Department
The Springettsbury Township Police Departmentoperates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCH
York County Regional Police Department
The York County Regional Police Departmentoperates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCH
Carroll Township Police Department
The Carroll Township Police Department operates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCH
Fairview Township Police Department
The Fairview Township Police Department operates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCH
Lower Windsor Township Police Department
The Lower Windsor Township Police Department operates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCH
Newberry Township Police Department
The Newberry Township Police Departmentoperates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCH
Penn Township Police Department
The Penn Township Police Departmentoperates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCH
Souther Regional Police Department
The Souther 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