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Leon County Sheriff's Office: Real-Time Crime Center

President Obama speaks to a police officer in a room full of computer monitors.
President Obama visits the Camden, New Jersey Real-Time Crime center in 2015.
Credit: Obama White House Archives
Agency Leon County Sheriff's Office
Location Tallahassee, FL
Technology Real-Time Crime Center
Vendor

The Leon County Real-Time Crime Center opened on November 2019, but as of 2021 it shared space at Florida State University with the FSUPD's own real-time crime center. The RTCC includes partnerships with Leon County Schools, Leon County Detention Facility, Leon County Courthouse, Florida State University, and the City of Tallahassee. As of April 23, 2019, the system only had access to cameras at Leon County public schools and the county courthouse. The system also allows people who use Ring doorbells to add their camera to the database.

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Real-Time Crime Centers are hubs where police ingest and analyze surveillance, intelligence, and data from a number of sources in real-time. RTCCs are often equipped with walls of monitors with live feeds from camera networks. Analysts are often able to access a wide variety of surveillance technologies, including automated license plate readers, gunshot detection, predictive policing, and face recognition. Unlike fusion centers, RTCCs tend to be focused on local level activities and a broader range of criminal investigations.

President Obama speaks to a police officer in a room full of computer monitors.
President Obama visits the Camden, New Jersey Real-Time Crime center in 2015.
Credit: Obama White House Archives