Nassau County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Nassau 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
Hempstead Village Police Department
The Hempstead Village Police Department operates 77 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Lake Success Village Police Department
The Lake Success Village Police Department operates six Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Nassau County Sheriff's Department
The Nassau County Sheriff's Department has 20 license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Long Island Press
Hempstead Police Department
The Hempstead Police Department plans to deploy a new Drone-as-First-Responder (DFR) system later this year. This initiative is powered by the Flock Aerodome DFR system from Flock Safety.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Drone Life
The Hempstead Police Department has been using ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology since 2012.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Long Island Report
Old Westbury Village Police Department
Old Westbury Village Police Department received $64,000 to purchase 32 body-worn cameras through the Small, Rural and Tribal Body-Worn Camera program in 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): SRT BWC Program
Glen Cove Police Department
The Glen Cove Police Department has installed 10 Flock Safety automated license plate readers. The agency has been using automated license plate readers since at least 2013.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): LI HeraldNews 12 Long IslandCity of Glen Cove
Nassau County Police Department
The Nassau County Police Department has 33 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.newsday.com
The Nassau County Police Department has been using ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology since 2009.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Homeland Security Newswire
Port Washington Police Department
The Port Washington 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 York
Sands Point Police Department
In January of 2020, the Sands Point Police Department began using Rekor Systems automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Port Washington News
Freeport Police Department
The Freeport Police Department has used automated license plate readers since November 2016.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Long Island HeraldAssociated Press
The Freeport Police Department began using Shotspotter gunshot detection technology in 2017.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of FreeportCity of Freeport
The Freeport Police Department announced the deployment of dashboard and body-worn cameras in 2015.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Nassau CountyNewsday
Long Beach Police Department
The Long Beach Police Department began using ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology in 2015.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Long Beach Police DepartmentShotSpotter
Floral Park Police Department
The Floral Park Police Department received funding for an automated license plate reader in 2013.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New York Civil Liberties Union
Kings Point Police Department
The Kings Point Police Department scanned 9,534,971 license plates in 2019 using Vigilant Solutions automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): MuckRock
Rockville Centre Police Department
The Rockville Centre Police Department received a 2021 US Bureau of Justice Assistance grant of $100,000 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