County record · New York

Putnam County

3 Deployments on record

2 Agencies

2 Technology categories

Technology presence

ALPR · 2 Fixed cameras & RTCC · none on record Face recognition · none on record Drones / UAS · 1 Gunshot detection · none on record Body-worn & dashcam · none on record Doorbell & camera registry · none on record Cell-site simulators · none on record Predictive policing · none on record Social-media monitoring · none on record

The record, by agency

Putnam County Sheriff's Office

Carmel · 2 deployments · on UnGovr: Putnam County

ALPR

The Putnam County Sheriff's Office received a grant to purchase 12 automated license plate readers in 2022.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Examiner News

Drones / UAS Vendor: DJI

The Putnam County Sheriff's Office operates three DJI drones as of 2019, 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 College putnamsheriff.com

Carmel Town Police Department

Carmel · 1 deployment · on UnGovr: Town of Carmel

ALPR

The Carmel Police Department has been using automated license plate readers in 2020. It uses both mobile and stationary cameras.

Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Tapinto Mahopac

Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026