Suffolk County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Suffolk 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
Suffolk County Sheriff's Office
The Suffolk County Sheriff's Office operates 24 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The Suffolk County Sheriff's Office has two drones, according to a 2022 report from the New York Civil Liberties Union.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): ACLU of New York
In 2018, the New York Attorney General provided $69,484 to The Suffolk County Sheriff's Office for 116 body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New York Attorney General's Office
Quogue Village Police Department
The Quogue Village Police Department operates six Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Amityville Village Police Department
The Amityville Police Department uses SoundThinking's ShotSpotter gunshot technology.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Trace
Suffolk County Police Department
The Suffolk County Police Department announced in January 2023 that it would be installing ShotSpotter gunshot detection sensors in Bellport, Coram, Mastic Beach, Shirley, Bay Shore, Brentwood, Central Islip, Huntington Station, North Amityville, and Wyandanch.
The Suffolk County Police Department has five 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 Collegenewyork.cbslocal.com
In 2018, the New York Attorney General provided $44,085 to the Suffolk County Police Department for 24 body-worn camera systems and three body-worn camera docking stations.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New York Attorney General's Office
The Suffolk County Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Suffolk County Police Department
Southhampton Town Police Department
The Southhampton Town Police Department has six drones, according to a 2022 report from the New York Civil Liberties Union.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): ACLU of New York
Southold Town Police Department
The Southold Town 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
Southampton Village Police Department
The Southampton Village Police Department has had multiple automated license plate readers since at least 2021.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Southampton Village Police Department
Suffolk Crime Analysis Center
The Suffolk 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. It is housed at the Suffolk County Police Department's headquarters in Yaphank. The SCAC features a video wall that displays footage from countywide surveillance cameras. Investigators can also access license plate readers, track squad cars, download video from helicopters, and analyze criminal justice data.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New York State Division of Criminal Justice ServicesNewsday
Stony Brook University Police Department
The Stony Brook University Police Department has been using Axon body-worn cameras since 2016, when it launch a pilot project. It fully implemented the program in 2017.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Stony Brook University NewsStony Brook University News
Southampton Town Police Department
The Southampton Town Police Department received a $240,000 US Bureau of Justice Assistance grant for it's body-worn camera program in 2022.
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