Baldwin County unveiled<\/a> a $650,000 real-time crime center that uses artificial intelligence and advanced camera systems to track suspects and assist law enforcement agencies across the region.<\/p>\nThe facility, which took two years to develop, combines an upgraded 911 call center with an intelligence unit equipped with AI-powered surveillance tools including Flock Safety license plate readers, facial recognition software and criminal records databases.<\/p>\n
Evelyn Johnson, the center’s director, said the technology addresses critical gaps in modern policing.<\/p>\n
“Law enforcement is understaffed. Our agency is just like every other,” Johnson said. “Also, technology these days is underutilized, in my opinion.”<\/p>\n
Johnson, who developed the center with Sheriff Bill Massee, said intelligence work has been a passion throughout her career.<\/p>\n
“Knowing that my intelligence that we gather is going to help not only make our officers safer but our community safer is a huge thing for me,” she said.<\/p>\n
The center demonstrated its capabilities during Thursday’s opening by tracking a vehicle in real time through Flock Safety cameras positioned throughout the county. Operators can search license plates, access jail and court records through a system called Flock Nova, and use Clearview AI to match faces against images from social media and other online sources.<\/p>\n
Kyle Cullars, a local realtor and restaurant owner who has lived in the county for 54 years, said he hopes the technology will deter criminal activity.<\/p>\n
“It might make people think twice about committing crimes in this area, and maybe if someone has that in their mind, they go elsewhere for it,” Cullars said.<\/p>\n
Massee emphasized that the upgraded 911 call center remains the facility’s most critical component.<\/p>\n
“When you dial 911, when you have emergencies, this is where you are sent by phone, and we got great employees,” Massee said.<\/p>\n
The new system allows dispatchers to pinpoint caller locations, track moving cell phones and receive emergency text messages.<\/p>\n
The project was funded through a combination of county tax dollars, special purpose local option sales tax revenue and $40,000 from the state of Georgia. County officials said they plan to expand the center’s technology and eventually operate the real-time monitoring unit 24 hours a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baldwin County unveils a $650,000 real-time crime center using AI and cameras to aid law enforcement. BALDWIN COUNTY,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":273018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,738,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-273017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115307041440957800","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}