Police Body Cameras
Active
21 meetings ·
2024-10-10 to 2026-09-02
Acquisition and deployment of Axon body-worn cameras for the Croton police department.
Timeline (21 meetings)
Oct 10, 2024
Board of Education
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Nov 21, 2024
Board of Education
hi pH secondary math teacher at PV I want to start with the summer that Michael was just talking to us about we had worked with special colleagues and when we were creating this this this curriculum we saw that was very sequential and we were thinkin…
Dec 5, 2024
Board of Education
also want to mention I had a chance to spend some time at PVC just before the Thanksgiving holiday and in a really had a nice and fun example of Faculty bringing students together for a a shared experience Mr signno Mr Gallagher and Miss ernow brough…
Jan 23, 2025
Police Advisory Committee (PAC)
d) Homeless: How the police can help and how they are limited in
their ability to help. To be written by Ian Murtaugh. e) RAD training, to be written later. f) New equipment: body cameras, drones, etc. to be written at a
later date when the equipm…
Nov 13, 2025
Police Advisory Committee (PAC)
14. Gun safety locks
• Chief Nikitopoulos reported that he has received 100 free gun locks
through a state program and that he will work with the Village to
advertise that the locks are free and can be picked up at the police
department. Locks wi…
b) Chief Nikitopoulos will ask Motorola for a trial body camera. c) Motorola body cameras can be equipped with a sensor to activate
when the taser is removed from its holster. 16. Policies for drones, apartment camera access, etc. • All department p…
Nov 20, 2025
Board Of Trustees
have to confirm on the schedule. You can confirm on the schedule on that, but that that will be you know, they they he talked a lot about kind of the the work going on at the police department in terms of the accreditation and policy work. So I that …
Jan 15, 2026
Police Advisory Committee (PAC)
a) Trustee Slippen and Carolyn Whiting discussed the excessively
long-time drivers must wait for a green light at the Croton Point
light for southbound Route 9 exiting traffic.
e The PAC has not previously discussed the use of red-light cameras
and …
Jan 28, 2026
Board of Trustees Work Session
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…
Feb 11, 2026
Board of Trustees Work Session
I don't necessarily think it's any I mean, I don't think there's any more liability than if somebody came to this this meeting unsupervised. Right? I mean, you know, it's they're they're public meetings. Right? People can come to them. I think there'…
Mar 12, 2026
Police Advisory Committee (PAC)
are NY State own traffic counting devices. • Red-light cameras a) The committee briefly discussed research that shows that
accidents may increase when red light cameras are used. Chief
Nikitopoulos stated that the research data for a potential increas…
Mar 26, 2026
Board of Trustees Work Session
Sure. As we usually do, I'll read the resolution first, and then we'll open it for discussion. Okay? Whereas the Croton-on-Hudson Police Department has been investigating the implementation of a police department body worn camera program, and whereas…
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 years, we have kept applying for grant…
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'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. They'll come on then. The body cameras can…
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?
Mar 26, 2026
Police Advisory Committee (PAC)
On motion of TRUSTEE SIMON, seconded by TRUSTEE SLIPPEN, the following
resolution was adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Croton-on-
Hudson, New York with the following vote: 4-0 (Trustee Nicholson was absent).
Resolution #67-2026
W…
WHEREAS, after reviewing the proposals and receiving feedback from the
department, Chief of Police John Nikitopoulos has requested to move forward with
the proposal from Axon Enterprise; and
WHEREAS, the camera program from Axon Enterprise include…
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: that the Village Board of Trustees hereby
authorizes the Village Manager to accept the proposal from Axon Enterprise in the
amount of $414,301.36.
Dated: March 26, 2026
Apr 8, 2026
Board Of Trustees
WHEREAS the Croton-on-Hudson Police Department has been investigating the
implementation of a police department body-warn camera program, and
WHEREAS the implementation of a police body-warn camera program has the support
of the Village’s Police Adv…
WHEREAS the camera program from Axon Enterprise includes translation services
and will integrate with the department-issued tasers; and
WHEREAS the camera program will also include dash cameras that activate when the
vehicle’s emergency lights activ…
Apr 9, 2026
Board of Trustees Work Session
topics. Got it. Yeah. So how much is that annually, the Lexapol? It's budgeted for 14,000. Okay. Yeah. And so then have we done a body camera policy and do we need to? Yeah. I'm currently in
Cost. Yearly cost. Yearly cost. Yes. But I I would like to have an estimate of what those costs will be kind of going forward just so we have a full understanding of of the cost of having body cameras. Again, I think overall, I'm in agreement that we…
So that that is an additional sort of layer of complexity to it. Yeah. I mean, I didn't bring it up at the body camera thing because I had put it in the budget. Mhmm. You know, I thought you were aware of it or whatever, but it is going to be a signi…
Yeah. And I I think that, kinda going back to the body camera conversation, right, and the additional I mean, I've worked with the chief for several years now on the PAC. So it's no surprise to me that the department is asking for additional officers…
I just wanted for context for people, we did add an officer to the department in 2025. I I believe. Yes. Yeah. So we did so, you know, we have we did try to be responsive to that. Right? We brought us we brought us up to the 2009 level that we had be…
Apr 16, 2026
Board Of Trustees
So that needs to be replaced. We need computers, desktops, laptops. That's all part of that $39,000 It's almost $40,000 The body cameras we have been discussing for a while. We do have money that we got from a grant. That money should pay for approxi…
pay for the replacements. So this is like an ongoing cost to the village of $85,000 in just software and maintenance for body cameras.
Apr 22, 2026
Board Of Trustees
And I just wanna call out to my colleagues a couple of things. So, you know, one of the bigger investments that we made in this budget was public safety. The digital radio system for the police department was a really significant investment and somet…
Thank you, manager. I know the work started in January, probably. But speaking about the body cams, I know we're gonna be doing a police study, So we'll understand what the staffing implications are from a third party independent consultant around ac…
I will stay on the body cam topic for a minute because we did enter into a contract with that provider, prior to at least for myself fully understanding what the how rigorous the implementation would be including possibly not having the correct staff…
a scenario where we would not have the staff to do the body cameras. I mean, if there was you know, when the chief was here discussing it with us, right, I mean, he asked for a certain amount of overtime to implement the program. You know, if it turn…
what the chief said, like, we gonna revisit this in some other way? Or we just think don't the wanna characterize it as despite what the chief said. I mean, the chief and I work collaboratively. Right? And I mean, obviously, the chief has to advocate…
Trustee Nicholson stated that one of the bigger investments we made in this budget
was in public safety that included a digital radio system, we also discussed body
cameras in the new Capital Expense line and while it is a significant expense it is
s…
Village Manager Healy stated that he does not think there is a scenario where we
would not have the staff to deal with the body cameras, when we discussed this with
the Police Chief, he asked for a certain amount of overtime to implement the
program,…
May 20, 2026
Board Of Trustees
And so I remember the public did ask about the a one c s contract. So, you know, just to clarify, that's a computer services contract for the police department, and it's not nothing to do with data storage. No. It is IT management for the police depa…
Jun 18, 2026
Police Advisory Committee (PAC)
Chief Nikitopoulos reported that there was a “blue light drill” at the schools. Parents were walking around the outside of the schools trying to determine the issue. The school might wish to communicate with the parents that walking around the school…
Aug 19, 2026
Board Of Trustees
what all this says to me is and people have questions. People talk I mean, we talk about this at PAC Yeah. That's why we're here. Every single meeting. But I sort of the way when I saw this the way it was set up on the agenda, I kind of thought we we…
Yeah. Thank you. And then from a timeline perspective on kind of a separate issue, where are we at with the body cams?
The body cams, the manager and I have a meeting tomorrow. We're going to try and finalize the policies we have. Once we finalize them, we have to send them back to Lexapol because they're the only ones that can edit what we changed, okay? Once we get…
House in house. Right? It's housed in house. Yeah. The the body cam data? Yeah. Yes.
Aug 19, 2026
Topics
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amount of $39,810. Dated: July 17, 2024 === SOURCE: meeting record ===
Nora Nicholson: so they continuously update the policies with all the new laws that come out. So that that's never really Lexapol, I guess, will never r…
Okay. Yeah. And so then have we done a body camera policy and do we need to? Yeah. I'm currently in
Bryan Healy: negotiations with the police association. Right? Because it's a it's a mandatory topic of bargaining. Alright. So I can't really talk mor…
Sep 2, 2026
Board Of Trustees
You know, the all all that sort of stuff. Mhmm. And especially in light of things like the population of the village changing, the addition of body cams, things like that that Yeah. Might impact the is the number we have correct now? And Caroline has…