Greenville County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Greenville 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
Greenville County Sheriff's Office
The Greenville County Sheriff's Office operates 11 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The Greenville County Sheriff's Office 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.foxcarolina.com
The Greenville County Sheriff’s Office purchased body-worn cameras in 2016 with a $135,000 grant through the South Carolina Department of Public Safety.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Berkeley Observer
Greenville Police Department
The Greenville Police Department operates 57 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The Greenville Police Department operates two DJI drones as of 2018, 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.foxcarolina.comexternal.ojp.usdoj.gov
The Greenville Police Department purchased body-worn cameras in 2016 with a $23,376 grant through the South Carolina Department of Public Safety. The U.S. Department of Justice also provided $93,750 in 2015 as part of the Bureau of Justice Assistance's body-worn camera grant program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Berkeley ObserverU.S Department of Justice
The Greenville Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Greenville Police Department
Greer Police Department
The Greer Police Department operates four Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The Greer Police Department has used body-worn cameras since at least 2014. The agency purchased body-worn cameras in 2016 with a $15,944 grant through the South Carolina Department of Public Safety.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Police Body Camera ReviewsGreer Police DepartmentCity of Greer Check Register
Mauldin Police Department
The Mauldin Police Department operates six Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The Mauldin Police Department purchased body-worn cameras in 2016 with a $19,918 grant through the South Carolina Department of Public Safety.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Berkeley Observer
Thirteenth Circuit Solicitor's Office
The Thirteenth Circuit Solicitor's Office received a total of $46849.2 in state funding for body-worn cameras in fiscal years 2019-2020.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): South Carolina Department of Public SafetySouth Carolina Department of Public SafetySouth Carolina Department of Public Safety
Greenville Technical College Police Department
The Greenville Technical College Police Department received a total of $34553.8 in state funding for body-worn cameras in fiscal years 2019-2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): South Carolina Department of Public SafetySouth Carolina Department of Public SafetySouth Carolina Department of Public Safety
Travelers Rest Police Department
The Travelers Rest Police Department received $63472.77 in state funding for body-worn cameras in fiscal year 2018.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): South Carolina Department of Public SafetySouth Carolina Department of Public SafetySouth Carolina Department of Public Safety
Simpsonville Police Department
The Simpsonville Police Department purchased Flock Safety automated license plate readers for $4,000 in 2020, and now utilizes 10 Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WSPA 7 NewsCity of Simpsonville
The Simpsonville Police Department purchased body-worn cameras in 2016 with a $58,148 grant through the South Carolina Department of Public Safety.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Berkeley Observer
South Carolina Highway Patrol
The South Carolina Highway Patrol uses automated license plate readers as part of a statewide program managed by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Post and CourierThe Post and Courier
Fountain Inn Police Department
The Fountain Inn Police Department purchased body-worn cameras in 2016 with a $9,938 grant through the South Carolina Department of Public Safety.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Berkeley Observer
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026