Dutchess County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Dutchess 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
Dutchess County Sheriff's Office
The Dutchess County Sheriff's Office uses drones and has a drone-as-first responder program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WRRV
The Dutchess County Sheriff's Office has been using automated license plate readers since at least 2012. The state legislature provide the sheriff's office with $50,000 for additional ALPR technology in 2020.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): ACLU FOIA/FOIL request response sourced from ACLU.orgLocal news
Beacon Police Department
The Beacon Police Department installed four Flock Safety automated license plate readers in 2023. The two-year agreement cost $21,400.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Highlands Current
Poughkeepsie Police Department
The City of Poughkeepsie Police Department signed a contract with Flock Safety to implement a gunshot detection device.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Mid Hudson News
The Poughkeepsie Police Department has one drone, according to a 2022 report from the New York Civil Liberties Union.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): ACLU of New YorkCenter for the Study of the Drone at Bard Collegewww.faa.gov
The Poughkeepsie Police Department purchased 65 Axon body-worn cameras in 2020.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Daily FreemanCity of Poughkeepsie Police Department
In 2012, the Town of Poughkeepsie Police Department spent $14,943 on ELSAG automated license plate readers .
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Hyde Park Police Department
The Hyde Park Police Department received a $40,000 US Bureau of Justice Assistance grant in 2022 for its body-worn camera program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Bureau of Justice Assistance, US Department of Justice
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026