City of Pittsfield

Berkshire County · Massachusetts

3 Deployments on record
1 Agencies
3 Technology categories

Technology presence

ALPR · 1 Fixed cameras & RTCC · none on record Face recognition · none on record Drones / UAS · none on record Gunshot detection · 1 Body-worn & dashcam · 1 Doorbell & camera registry · none on record Cell-site simulators · none on record Predictive policing · none on record Social-media monitoring · none on record

The record, by agency

Pittsfield Police Department

Pittsfield · 3 deployments · on UnGovr: City of Pittsfield

ALPR Vendor: Axon

The Pittsfield Police Department made a 60-month, $281,000 arrangement with Axon in 2023 to equip 20 police cruisers with cameras with automated license plate reading capability.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WAMC

Body-worn & dashcam

The Pittsfield Police Department received a grant of $166,586.73 from the Massachusetts FY23 Body-Worn Cameras (BWC) Grant Program.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security

Gunshot detection Vendor: ShotSpotter

The Pittsfield Police Department began using ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology in 2017. The system was paid for with a $300,000 gift from Berkshire Health Systems.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WRGB 6iBerkshireiBerkshire

Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026