Police Body Cameras
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4 meetings ·
2026-01-28 to 2026-03-26
Acquisition and deployment of Axon body-worn cameras for the Croton police department.
Timeline (3 meetings)
2026-01-28
Board Of Trustees
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…
2026-02-11
Board Of Trustees
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'…
2026-03-26
Board Of Trustees
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 i…
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…
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…
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.…
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?
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…
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.