Orange County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Orange 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
Newburgh Police Department
The Newburgh Police Department operates 64 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The Newburg Police Department began using Shotspotter gunshot detection technology in 2017, but the system was cut from the 2020 budget. As of January 2020, Shotspotter was still operational as police sought supplementary funding.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Daily FreemanNewburgh Police Department
The Newburgh Police Department began a body-worn camera program in 2015 and began with 20 cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Public ReportPolicy Document
Washingtonville Village Police Department
The Washingtonville Village Police Department operates two Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Deerpark Police Department
The Deerpark Police Department received a $30,000 Bureau of Justice Assistance grant in 2022 to purchase body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): US Bureau of Justice Assistance
Orange County Sheriff's Office
The Orange County Sheriff's Office has one drone, according to a 2022 report from the New York Civil Liberties Union.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): ACLU of New York
Middletown Police Department
The Middletown Police Department has two drones, according to a 2022 report from the New York Civil Liberties Union.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): ACLU of New York
Monroe Village Police Department
The Monroe Village Police Department received $10,109 from the Bureau of Justice Assistance to purchase 20 body-worn cameras through the 2022 Small, Rural, Tribal BWC Microgrant program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Small, Rural, and Tribal Body-Worn Camera microgrant grantee list
Tuxedo Park Police Department
The Tuxedo Park Police Department has one automated license plate reader at the front gates of the village as of 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Tuxedo Park Police Department
Hudson Valley Crime Analysis Center
The Hudson 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. Housed at the Orange County Emergency Services Center, the HVCAC features "a video wall measuring 4½ -feet high by 20-feet wide that displays multiple sources of data and information in real time, including feeds from public surveillance cameras in the cities of Newburgh and Middletown." It also accesses ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology. The HVCAC serves agencies in Orange, Dutchess and Ulster counties.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New York State Division of Criminal Justice ServicesNew York Governor's OfficeTimes Herald-Record
Crawford Police Department
The Crawford 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