Onondaga County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Onondaga 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
Onondaga Community College - Department Of Campus Safety And Security
The Onondaga Community College - Department Of Campus Safety And Security operates six Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
North Syracuse Village Police Department
The North Syracuse Village Police Department received a Small, Rural and Tribal Body-Worn Camera Program grant for $4,800 for 8 body-worn cameras in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Justice & Security StrategiesJustice & Security Strategies
East Syracuse Police Department
They East Syracuse Police Department acquired two Flock Safety automated license plate readers in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Eagle News
Syracuse Police Department
The Syracuse Police Department has received multiple grants from federal and state agencies for body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New York Attorney General's OfficeUS Bureau of Justice AssistanceU.S Department of Justice
The Syracuse Police Department began using ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology in 2017.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): ShotSpotterThe Daily OrangeThe Daily Orange
Manlius Police Department
The Manlius Police Department has three drones, according to a 2022 report from the New York Civil Liberties Union.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): ACLU of New York
The Manlius Police Department purchased 12 Axon body-worn Cameras in 2014.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Syracuse.comUtica Observer Dispatch
Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office
The Onondaga County Sheriff's Department received approval from the Onondaga County Legislature for a $606 thousand proposal to acquire body-worn cameras in 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Spectrum News
Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office has been using automated license plate readers since 2014.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Syracuse.comOnondaga County Sheriff’s Office Website
Central New York Crime Analysis Center
The Central New York Crime Analysis Center (previously known as the Onondaga 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 2008, the CAC received an upgrade in 2020. According to a press release, the CAC occupies 4,216 square feet of space on the second floor of the Syracuse Police Department and features a 16-foot wide by 4½-foot high video wall that displays "multiple sources of data and information in real time, including calls for service and feeds from public surveillance cameras, among other technology." It serves law enforcement agencies in Onondaga, Madison and Oswego counties.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New York State Division of Criminal Justice ServicesNew York State Division of Criminal Justice Services
Cicero Police Department
The Cicero Police Department launched a camera registry in 2019.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Syracuse.com
Syracuse University Police Department
The U.S. Department of Justice awarded $88,965 to the Syracuse University Police Department in 2016 as part of the Bureau of Justice Assistance's body-worn camera grant program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): U.S 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