Ulster County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Ulster 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
Kingston Police Department
The Kingston Police Department uses Axon body-worn cameras. The agency began its pilot program for body-worn cameras in 2016. Additionally, the agency received $115,000 to purchase 16 body-worn cameras and related equipment on April 2018.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): FacebookSpectrum NewsDaily Freeman
The Kingston Police Department has multiple license plate readers with the most recent funding to buy another approved in 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Daily Freeman Newspaper
Ellenville Village Police Department
The Ellenville Village Police Department received a Small, Rural, and Tribal Body-Worn Camera Program grant for $40,000.00 for 20 body-worn cameras in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Justice & Security StrategiesJustice & Security Strategies
Shawangunk Police Department
The Shawangunk Police Department has one drone, according to a 2022 report from the New York Civil Liberties Union.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): ACLU of New York
Rosendale Town Police Department
The Rosendale Town Police Department received $2,835 from the Bureau of Justice Assistance to purchase 6 body-worn cameras through the 2022 Small, Rural, Tribal BWC Microgrant program. Previously, the U.S. Department of Justice awarded $8,000 to the Rosendale Police Department in 2019 as part of the Bureau of Justice Assistance's body-worn camera grant program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Small, Rural, and Tribal Body-Worn Camera microgrant grantee listU.S Department of Justice
Ulster County Sheriff's Office
The Ulster County Sheriff's Office operates one DJI Inspire 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 Collegewww.dailyfreeman.com
The Ulster County Sheriff's Office scanned 807,167 license plates in 2019 using Vigilant Solutions automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): MuckRockUlster County Legislative OfficeSheriff County office
In 2018, the New York Attorney General provided $69,776 to the Ulster County Sheriff's Office for 80 body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): New York Attorney General's Office
Saugerties Police Department
The Saugerties 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