Rhea County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Rhea 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.
- Fusion & investigative platforms
- Third-party platforms that fuse data across sources, sometimes including other surveillance feeds, for law-enforcement search and analysis, sold or licensed to multiple agencies rather than built by any one of them: examples include Palantir, Peregrine Systems, C3.ai, and SoundThinking's CrimeTracer (formerly Coplink X). Adjacent: an analytics layer that sits above the surveillance feeds this site otherwise tracks, rather than a sensing deployment of its own.
The record, by agency
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Dayton Police Department
The Dayton Police Department operates two Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Public Records From the EFF via Pittsboro Police - See note
The Dayton Police Department operates four Condor cameras from Flock Safety as of September 2025. The cameras are paired with video analytics software.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): EFF via Pittsboro Police - See note
The Dayton Police Department has access to SoundThinking's CrimeTracer (formerly Coplink X) investigative platform through a statewide contract announced in April 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): PR News WireMuckrock
The Dayton Police Department received $36,000 from the Bureau of Justice Assistance to purchase 18 body-worn cameras through the 2022 Small, Rural, Tribal BWC Microgrant program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Small, Rural, and Tribal Body-Worn Camera microgrant grantee list
Rhea County Sheriff's Office
The Rhea County Sheriff's Office has access to SoundThinking's CrimeTracer (formerly Coplink X) investigative platform through a statewide contract announced in April 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): PR News WireMuckrock
The Rhea County Sheriff's Office has access to a predictive analytics system developed by IBM to identify locations where vehicle crashes and DUIs are likely to occur. All 95 county sheriffs in the state access the system, which is managed by the Tennessee Highway Patrol.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland SecurityTennessee Department of Safety and Homeland SecurityFox17
12th Judicial District Attorneys Office
The 12th Judicial District Attorneys Office has access to SoundThinking's CrimeTracer (formerly Coplink X) investigative platform through a statewide contract announced in April 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): PR News WireMuckrock
Graysville Police Department
The Graysville Police Department has access to SoundThinking's CrimeTracer (formerly Coplink X) investigative platform through a statewide contract announced in April 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): PR News WireMuckrock
Town of Spring City
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