A clearer view of our community.
Cuse Scanner organizes public CAD observations from Syracuse and Onondaga County into an accessible feed, map, and collected history.
Built here, for our community
Cuse Scanner is built and maintained by MindHere Consulting LLC, a technology and consulting company based in Syracuse, New York. This is our home, too, and we care about the people and neighborhoods that make it special. We provide Cuse Scanner as a service to our community, making public information easier to explore while respecting the privacy of the people behind each call.
Our goal is simple: put our technology skills to work for our neighbors with a useful, thoughtful resource for Syracuse and Onondaga County.
Where the information comes from
The source is the Onondaga County Department of Emergency Communications public CAD portal. This project is independent and is not affiliated with the county, emergency services, or Syracuse University.
The collector checks the All and Closed Events views at most once per minute, following pages sequentially within a safety cap. The portal provides no stable event identifier, so records are reconciled using agency, event type, location fields, and dispatch time. Matching observations can still be ambiguous.
What the history means
The county does not archive this portal. Cuse Scanner retains its own observations from the time collection began; it cannot reconstruct incidents it never observed. A pending record can be updated in place when a dispatch time appears. A closed record was observed in the county’s Closed Events view. A cleared record was missing from both complete views for three successful polls.
When pagination exceeds the safety cap, collection is incomplete and missing-event clearing is suspended. Timelines describe observed changes, not official incident or response durations.
County limitations and disclaimer
Data may be delayed or incomplete, and some incidents are excluded under privacy law. The county portal is not provided for statistical analysis or as a means to obtain copies of incident reports. These observations must not be treated as a complete measure of crime, safety, workload, or emergency response.
Do not call 911 or the Department of Emergency Communications about entries on this site. For an actual emergency, call 911.
Location privacy
Locations are approximate. No map point is displayed more precisely than an intersection. Medical and disturbance observations are generalized further to a 150 m grid or a broader municipality location. Street and place geocoding results fall back to the municipality center. The same projection applies to event detail, replay, exports, aggregate maps, and notifications.
Internal numeric location codes are stored for reconciliation and never displayed. This site has no comments, personal names, photos, or speculative descriptions. Optional “Near me” coordinates are not persisted server-side; they do appear in the view URL, so remove that filter before sharing a location-sensitive link.
Access
The live feed, map, and collected history are available without an account. Administrative controls require authorized sign-in.
Accessibility and local design
The activity list works without JavaScript and provides an equivalent to the map. Keyboard controls, reduced motion, and mobile layouts are supported. The original canal-lock and salt-crystal mark references Syracuse’s local history without using university or civic trademarks.
Map data: OpenStreetMap contributors, distributed through Protomaps. UI typefaces: Inter and JetBrains Mono, licensed under the SIL Open Font License.