Monroe County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Monroe 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
Rochester Police Department
The Rochester City Police Department used Skydio drones during a month-and-a-half pilot program in April 2025.
The Rochester Police Department purchased WatchGuard body-worn cameras in 2022, but it had previously received grants for BWCs as early as 2015.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Fosters Daily DemocratU.S Department of JusticeNew York Attorney General's Office
The Rochester Police Department has been using ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology since at least 2013.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New York Up StateDemocrat and Chronical
The Rochester Police Department acquired a Kingfish cell-site simulator from Harris Corp. in 2011, according to research by Kevin Collier for Vocativ.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): VocativKevin Collierweb.archive.org
Monroe County Sheriff's Office
Monroe County Sheriff's Office uses the Fusus camera registry system.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): 404 Media
The Monroe County Sheriff's Office has eight drones, 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.whec.com
In 2018, the New York Attorney General provided $59,694 to the Monroe County Sheriff's Office for 30 body-worn camera systems and six body-worn camera docking stations.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New York Attorney General's Office
Greece Police Department
The Greece Police Department has four drones, according to a 2022 report from the New York Civil Liberties Union.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): ACLU of New York
The Greece Police Department acquired automated license plate readers in 2010.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New York Civil Liberties UnionTown of Greece
State University Of New York Police Department
The State University Of New York Police Department began using body-worn cameras in February 2020.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): SUNY Brockport
Brockport Police Department
The Brockport Police Department adopted body-worn cameras in 2015. In 2017, BWC footage of an officer being attacked by a squirrel went viral over social media.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Democrat and ChronicleCBS 17Brockport Police Department's Facebook Page
Monroe Crime Analysis Center
The Monroe 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. Launched in 2015, the MCAC is housed at the Rochester Police Department. Analysts at the MCAC can access ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology, a network of city surveillance cameras, and other criminal justice data systems. The MCAC serves law enforcement agencies in Monroe, Ontario, Livingston and Genesee counties.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New York State Division of Criminal Justice ServicesSpectrum NewsDemocrat and Chronicle
Irondequoit Police Department
The Irondequoit Police Department had one automated license plate reader as of 2014.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Democrat & Chronicle
Brighton Police Department
The Brighton Police Department operates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCH
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026