Oneida County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Oneida 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
Utica Police Department
The Utica Police Department uses SoundThinking's ShotSpotter investigative platform.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Utica Observer-Dispatch
The Utica Police Department operates one Yuneec Typhoon Q500 drone as of 2015, according to data compiled by the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard Collegeregistry.faa.gov
In 2018, the New York Attorney General provided $67,890 to the Utica Police Department for 110 body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New York Attorney General's Office
New York Mills Village Police Department
New York Mills Village Police Department received $5,000 to purchase three body-worn cameras through the Small, Rural and Tribal Body-Worn Camera program in 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): SRT BWC Program
Oneida County Sheriff's Office
The Oneida County Sheriff's Office has 13 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 CollegeOneida County Sheriff's Office
Rome Police Department
The Rome Police Department operates one Yuneec Typhoon drone as of 2018, according to data compiled by the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard Collegeromesentinel.com
Mohawk Valley Crime Analysis Center
The Mohawk Valley 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 January 2017, the MVCAC is housed at the Utica Police Department and features a video wall that displaces city surveillance camera feeds and real-time crime data. The MVCAC serves law enforcement agencies in Oneida, Herkimer and Lewis counties.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New York State Division of Criminal Justice ServicesNew York Governor's OfficeWIBX
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026