Franklin County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Franklin 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
Saint Regis Mohawk Tribal Police Department
The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribal Police Department received a grant from the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services to purchases automated license plate readers in May 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe
The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribal Police Department received a grant from the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services to purchases drones in May 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Saint Regis Mohawk TribeSaint Regis PD
The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribal Police Department received a grant from the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services to purchases gunshot detection technology in May 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe
The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribal Police Department uses Watchguard body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Saint Regis Mohawk Police Department Facebook page
North Country Crime Analysis Center
The North Country 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 in the Franklin County Public Safety Building, the NCCAC serves law enforcement agencies in Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson and St. Lawrence counties. It was launched in 2016.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New York State Division of Criminal Justice ServicesPress-RepublicanSpectrum News
Saranac Lake Police Department
The Saranac Lake Police Department in 2014.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): North County Public Radio
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026