Broome County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Broome 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
Endicott Police Department
The Endicott Police Department adopted Shotspotter gunshot detection technology in late 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): PressConnects
The Endicott Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Endicott Police Department
Southern Tier Crime Analysis Center
The Southern Tier Crime Analysis Center is part of a network of 10 real-time crime analysis centers supported by the New York State Division of Criminal Justice. Housed at the Binghamton Police Department, the STCAC serves law enforcement agencies in Broome, Chenango and Cortland counties.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New York State Division of Criminal Justice ServicesSpectrum NewsCity of Binghamton
Broome County Sheriff's Office
The Broome County Sheriff's Office operates eight DJI drones as of 2019, 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.binghamtonhomepage.combrindisi.house.gov
The Broome County Sheriff Department purchased 35 body-worn cameras from Axon in 2015.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Press Connects
Vestal Police Department
The Vestal Police Department purchased 40 Axon body-worn cameras in 2018.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Press Connects
The Vestal Police Department had one automated license plate reader as of 2014.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Town Board of Vestal
The Town of Vestal Police Department operates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCH
Binghamton Police Department
In 2015, the Binghamton Police Department entered a five-year contract with Axon for 90 body-worn cameras .
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): PRNewsWire
The Binghamtom Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of Binghamton
Binghamton University Police Department
The Binghamton University Police Department uses Genetec automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Axis Communicationswww.pressconnects.com
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026