The evening's second major item came at the end: a unanimous vote to approve a $414,301.36 contract with Axon Enterprise for a police department body-worn camera program. Officers had been testing cameras from both Axon and a competitor over the past few months, and the department recommended Axon. …

The body camera approval followed months of discussion by the Police Advisory Committee, which had explored the issue alongside broader questions about department staffing and community relations.

if there is somebody who can speak to that, who's present in the meeting go over that now. I'm I mean, these cameras record when they're put on. They they will automatically go on if the taser's drawn. That's why we wanna get the axe on the same one. We'll also have a switch on the weapon holster. T…

Sure. As we usually do, I'll read the resolution first, and then we'll open it for discussion. Okay? Whereas the colonel Hudson Police Department has been investigating the implementation of a police department body worn camera program, and whereas implementation of a police body worn camera program…

I probably could, but I'm just curious how much of this is, like, somebody A lot of the traffic enforcement we tried to do was through in town. Route 9 is a major thoroughfare through through our village. We handle all traffic accidents out there, so we do spend time out there also because lowering …

Second. Second by trustee Slippin. And, chief, do you have anything you wanna share? Well, I mean, I just wanted to say that, you know, we have, embarked on this body cam project because of the request from the board and the PAC committee, many years ago with police reform. Over the past several yea…

Well, once we get them and they're set up, they will like, the the car cameras will activate as soon as the emergency lights go on. Okay? There are there are other switches to where as soon as the officer gets out of the car, it will activate. Mhmm. They can also activate it themselves. There's goin…

We're probably once we once we actually get the funding in in June, we're gonna actually be able to order these now once the contract is signed. So production takes a while. I'm hoping maybe we can have these in use by October, November, you know, before the end of the year. Pretty good. That's that…

You know, that's And they're not I mean, they're not activated all the time. That it's not like it's eight hours of footage.

Chief policing in today's day and age. Yeah. Yeah. Chief, I was wondering what you know, of course, this will be in in our capital plan, the actual funding. But what's Axon telling you in terms of delivery time?

staffing required Yeah. For this. Yeah. It's also gonna take a lot of manpower to review, which is Yeah. Why I guess I always ask for more manpower. So I'm gonna throw that out there tonight. But it is it it is time consuming, and we have to do it. And it's also gonna put a lot more, stress on the s…

now. And I don't know if I'm right on the $75.25. I don't know. You, but, you know, I mean, no matter if you're may find out, they're familiar with You know, if that's if if this is gonna impact morale, I think that's important to know. Listen. It may it may not. But, you know Right. Even jobs that …

Acknowledging that a "vocal group of residents" opposes any government cameras in the village, the PAC decided to hold a special discussion on all village cameras at its March meeting. The goal is to develop a public education campaign explaining exactly what the village's License Plate Readers and …

Detective Fielding clarified that LPR data is stored at the County Real Time Crime Center for about three years, is not shared with ICE without a judicial warrant, and cannot be used to track the daily behavioral patterns of residents. The PAC will also ask the Board to mandate warning signage near …

I had voices similar concern. Didn't even chat with you about it, but to to the and it was more not it was it was totally supportive of this. It's just I had to get through reading all the budget materials, and I just didn't have the time to even read the proposal. So it's great that we worked out a…

Well, that's fine. If we can get more, even better. So yeah. So we have some of that money that we got from that grant is is set aside for the cameras. And

I I I just wanna apologize for the lateness of this being brought to the board's attention because there was miscommunication between myself and the chief as to when this needed to be sent back to Axon. So I thought that we had a little more time, so I apologize for not having this on the agenda of …

Yep. I think that's a really good point. And we really haven't I mean, this is just allowing us to have the option to have speeding cameras, right, by doing that. But we haven't really had the debate around red light cameras yet. Which is also on their list. It's on their list. Right? And we really …

Okay. So I just wanted to talk a little bit about the I wanted to point out the there are two memos from, the police advisory committee on here. And I, you know, I was at the meeting where these two topics or maybe it was even two meetings where these topics were discussed by the PAC. And I wanted t…

you know, had weren't a 100% happy with the decision. But if they had the option of reversing it and chose not to, I mean, that does tell you something. Okay. But, yeah, we we should get cops. No disagreement. I think there's work to be done here, but I think we're it you know, it's worth looking at