Somerset County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Somerset 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.
The record, by agency
Somerset County Sheriff’s Office
The Somerset County Sheriff’s Office has an automated license plate reader program, according to an audit released in July 2025 by the New Jersey State Police.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Jersey State Police
Bernards Township Police Department
The Bernards Township Police Department has an automated license plate reader program, according to an audit released in July 2025 by the New Jersey State Police.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Jersey State Police
The Bernards Township Police Department received $59,102 in 2021 from the New Jersey Attorney General's Office to purchase 29 body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WRNJNew Jersey Office of the Attorney General
Bound Brook Police Department
The Bound Brook Police Department has an automated license plate reader program, according to an audit released in July 2025 by the New Jersey State Police.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Jersey State Police
The Bound Brook Police Department received $50,950 in 2021 from the New Jersey Attorney Genreral's office to purchase 25 body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WRNJNew Jersey Office of the Attorney General
Branchburg Police Department
The Branchburg Police Department has an automated license plate reader program, according to an audit released in July 2025 by the New Jersey State Police.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Jersey State Police
The Branchburg Police Department received $67,254 in 2021 from the New Jersey Attorney Genreral's office to purchase 33 body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WRNJNew Jersey Office of the Attorney General
Far Hills Police Department
The Far Hills Police Department has an automated license plate reader program, according to an audit released in July 2025 by the New Jersey State Police.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Jersey State Police
The Far Hills Police Department received $18,342 in 2021 from the New Jersey Attorney General's Office to purchase 9 body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WRNJNew Jersey Office of the Attorney General
Franklin Township Police Department
The Franklin Township Police Department - Somerset County has an automated license plate reader program, according to an audit released in July 2025 by the New Jersey State Police.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Jersey State Police
The Franklin Township (Somerset County) Police Department received $183,420 in 2021 from the New Jersey Attorney General's Office to purchase 90 body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WRNJNew Jersey Office of the Attorney General
Manville Police Department
The Manville Police Department has an automated license plate reader program, according to an audit released in July 2025 by the New Jersey State Police.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Jersey State Police
The Manville Police Department received $46,874 in 2021 from the New Jersey Attorney General's Office to purchase 23 body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WRNJNew Jersey Office of the Attorney General
North Plainfield Police Department
The North Plainfield Police Department has an automated license plate reader program, according to an audit released in July 2025 by the New Jersey State Police.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Jersey State Police
The North Plainfield Police Department has 20 body-worn cameras, according to a 2020 survey from New Jersey Attorney General's Office.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Jersey Attorney General's OfficeNew Jersey Attorney GeneralNew Jersey Attorney General
Raritan Police Department
The Raritan Police Department has an automated license plate reader program, according to an audit released in July 2025 by the New Jersey State Police.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Jersey State Police
The Raritan Police Department has 21 body-worn cameras, according to a 2020 survey from New Jersey Attorney General's Office.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Jersey Attorney General's OfficeRaritan Borough Police DepartmentMy Central Jersey
Somerville Police Department
The Somerville Police Department has an automated license plate reader program, according to an audit released in July 2025 by the New Jersey State Police.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Jersey State Police
The Somerville Police Department received $65,216 in 2021 from the New Jersey Attorney General's Office to purchase 32 body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WRNJNew Jersey Office of the Attorney General
Watchung Police Department
The Watchung Police Department has an automated license plate reader program, according to an audit released in July 2025 by the New Jersey State Police.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Jersey State Police
The Watchung Police Department received $50,950 in 2021 from the New Jersey Attorney General's Office to purchase 25 body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WRNJNew Jersey Office of the Attorney General
Bedminster Township Police Department
The Bedminster Township Police Department has an automated license plate reader program, according to an audit released in July 2025 by the New Jersey State Police.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Jersey State Police
Raritan Township Police Department
The Raritan Township Police Department has an automated license plate reader program, according to an audit released in July 2025 by the New Jersey State Police.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Jersey State Police
South Bound Brook Police Department
The South Bound Brook Police Department has an automated license plate reader program, according to an audit released in July 2025 by the New Jersey State Police.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Jersey State Police
Green Brook Police Department
The Green Brook Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Flock Safety
Montgomery Township Police Department
As of April 2024, the Montgomery Township Police Department operates five Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Flock SafetyThe News & ObserverThe News & Observer
Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office
The Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office received a $102,858 grant from the New Jersey Attorney General's Office in 2023 for automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Jersey Attorney General's Office
South Bound Brook Borough Police Department
The South Bound Brook Police Department received $28,000 from the Bureau of Justice Assistance to purchase 14 body-worn cameras through the 2022 Small, Rural, Tribal BWC Microgrant program. Previouisly, the agency received $28,532 in 2021 from the New Jersey Attorney General's Office to purchase 14 body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WRNJNew Jersey Office of the Attorney GeneralSmall, Rural, and Tribal Body-Worn Camera microgrant grantee list
Somerset County Prosecutor's Office
The Somerset County Prosecutor's Office received $193,610 in 2021 from the New Jersey Attorney General's Office to purchase 95 body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WRNJNew Jersey Office of the Attorney General
Bernardsville Police Department
The Bernardsville Police Department received $50,950 in 2021 from the New Jersey Attorney Genreral's office to purchase 25 body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WRNJNew Jersey Office of the Attorney General
The Bernardsville Police Department uses automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Bernardsville Police DepartmentCity of Bernardsville
Bedminster Police Department
The Bedminster Police Department received $40,760 in 2021 from the New Jersey Attorney General's Office to purchase 20 body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WRNJNew Jersey Office of the Attorney General
Green Brook Township Police Department
The Green Brook Township Police Department received $46,874 in 2021 from the New Jersey Attorney General's Office to purchase 23 body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WRNJNew Jersey Office of the Attorney General
Hillsborough Police Department
The Hillsborough Police Department received $114,128 in 2021 from the New Jersey Attorney General's Office to purchase 56 body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WRNJNew Jersey Office of the Attorney General
Montgomery Police Department
The Montgomery Police Department received $71,330 in 2021 from the New Jersey Attorney General's Office to purchase 35 body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WRNJNew Jersey Office of the Attorney General
Peapack and Gladstone Police Department
The Peapack and Gladstone Police Department received $22,418 in 2021 from the New Jersey Attorney General's Office to purchase 11 body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WRNJNew Jersey Office of the Attorney General
Warren Township Police Department
The Warren Township Police Department received $122,280 in 2021 from the New Jersey Attorney General's Office to purchase 60 body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WRNJNew Jersey Office of the Attorney General
Somerset County Sheriff's Office
The Somerset County Sheriff’s Office has 30 body-worn cameras, according to a 2020 survey from New Jersey Attorney General's Office.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Jersey Attorney General's OfficeNew Jersey Attorney GeneralNew Jersey Attorney General
The Somerset County Sherif's Office operates one Lockheed Martin Indago drone as of 2016, according to data compiled by the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard Collegewww.nj.com
Bridgewater Police Department
The Bridgewater Police Department has 75 body-worn cameras, according to a 2020 survey from New Jersey Attorney General's Office.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New Jersey Attorney General's OfficeNew Jersey Attorney GeneralNew Jersey Attorney General
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026