Chautauqua County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Chautauqua 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
Dunkirk Police Department
The Dunkirk Police Department uses Motorola V300 body-worn cameras. The agency implemented its body-worn camera program in 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Post JournalDunkirk Police Department's Facebook page
Jamestown Police Department
The Jamestown Police Department plans to purchase three drones from Steel City Drones. The purchase will be funded by a $36,000 grant from the Division of Criminal Justice Services’ Law Enforcement.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Post JournalWRFACenter for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Chautauqua County Sheriff's Office
The Chautauqua County Sheriff's Office began operating drones in 2023. The agency funded the program using $50,000 anonymous donation.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Erie News Now
SUNY University Police Department
The SUNY Fredonia University Police implemented its body-worn camera progam in October 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): My Fredonia
Fredonia Police Department
The Fredonia Police Department implemented its body-worn camera program in 2016.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Village of Fredonia Police Department
Lakewood-Busti Police Department
The Lakewood-Busti Police Department implemented its body-worn camera program in 2016.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Post Journal
Town of Ellicott Police Department
The Ellicott Police Department began wearing body-worn cameras in January 2019.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Post Journal
Carroll Police Department
The Town of Carroll Police Department purchased body-worn cameras using DWI Infraction money in 2019.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Post Journal
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026