Join the Gwinnett Safe Communities Program
Help make the Sugarloaf CID safer by enrolling in Gwinnett County’s new community camera sharing program! You can make a big difference through this collective community effort.
There are two ways you can participate to improve safety for our community:
- Register cameras on your property to enable Gwinnett Police to locate cameras and/or potentially contact you faster in the event of an incident.
- Integrate your cameras with Gwinnett Safe Communities through a mutual agreement between you and the Gwinnett Police. Your camera will only be accessed during a criminal incident or emergency at or near your camera’s location.
Across the Metro Atlanta area, camera owners are helping first responders respond to emergency situations more effectively through a new technology where camera owners can provide authorized law enforcement the locations of cameras on their properties (known as “registering” a camera) and allow them to view live footage in the event of an emergency (known as “integrating” a camera). The more cameras that are registered in Gwinnett aids law enforcement in “connecting the dots” to recover stolen property, help solve other crimes, and even locate missing persons. This technology was developed in Gwinnett County by Fusus, which is a part of the company Axon. Axon also produces police body worn cameras and tasers.
To be even more proactive, the additional option of integrating your camera with the Fusus technology gives authorized law enforcement personnel access to your camera, ONLY if determined necessary for public safety or in the event of an emergency. This completely voluntary program mutually benefits first responders in Gwinnett County and you by being proactive and providing more real-time information about a potentially dangerous situation.
Both options are completely voluntary, and camera owners can enroll and withdraw from the program at any time. Only authorized law enforcement personnel are able to view footage in either case, and all actions with footage leave a detailed audit trail for accountability. This is a safe, effective, and efficient way for emergency responders to gather information about a potentially dangerous situation and respond more informed to these emergencies. Here are the two options, in more detail:
- Camera Registration
- FREE to register any camera
- This lets authorized law enforcement personnel know that you own a camera in the area. In the event of an incident, Gwinnett Police can contact you via email to see if you might have footage to share after an incident occurred near your camera or just to inform you that there is something occurring in the area.
- No live stream access – you share the footage you want, only when you want to.
- Camera Integration
- Allows authorized law enforcement personnel to see camera footage in the event of an emergency at the location of the camera or in the area. Again, you can always withdraw consent at any time.
- Anytime law enforcement accesses your camera, an audit trail is created.
- Over 12,300 cameras are integrated in Gwinnett County as of January 9, 2025.
- Costs vary by the number of cameras you want to integrate. See the products and costs for integration here.
- Mutual agreement between Gwinnett Police and the camera owner. See the terms and conditions here.
Fusus technology is already being utilized in Cobb County and the City of Atlanta, and it even helped Atlanta Police locate a missing elderly woman in June 2022. The Gwinnett Police credit the Fusus integrated camera technology with catching a repeat, multi-state suspect, who impersonated a delivery truck driver and stole packages at malls across the southeast. He was seen stealing packages via the live, integrated cameras at a Gwinnett business and was apprehended by Gwinnett Police just minutes later.
Using the Fusus technology, registered and integrated cameras can be utilized along with the existing Flock Safety Cameras that Sugarloaf CID and Gwinnett Police use. The Flock Safety Cameras read license plates and communicate with law enforcement databases to flag potentially related criminal activity, and they have been a huge success; in fact, in 2023, the Flock Safety Cameras located in the Central Precinct, which were purchased and installed by Sugarloaf CID and Gwinnett Place CID, helped the Gwinnett Police to recover 32 stolen vehicles (including 17 related arrests) and locate 51 wanted persons. These cameras are a deterrent for criminals attempting vehicle-based crimes, because they are more likely to get caught.
Visit the Safe Communities website for more information! Here are some FAQs to check out.
You can also request the Gwinnett Police come to your property to evaluate the best place for potential cameras and discuss your connectivity options with the Fusus technology.
Email SafeCommunities@GwinnettCounty.com with any questions.
