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Columbia County

2 Deployments on record
2 Agencies
2 Technology categories

Technology presence

ALPR · none on record Fixed cameras & RTCC · none on record Face recognition · none on record Drones / UAS · 1 Gunshot detection · none on record 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

Columbia County Sheriff's Office

Hudson · 1 deployment · on UnGovr: Columbia County

Drones / UAS Vendor: DJI

The Columbia County Sheriff's Office has two drones, according to a 2022 report from the New York Civil Liberties Union.

Hudson Police Department

Hudson · 1 deployment · on UnGovr: City of Hudson

Body-worn & dashcam

The U.S. Department of Justice awarded $10,062 to the Hudson Police Department in 2017 as part of the Bureau of Justice Assistance's body-worn camera grant program.

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