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CHP Selects Vendor for Body-Worn Camera Pilot

The California Highway Patrol intends to award a contract for its body-worn camera project to Taser International Inc., according to state records released this week.

The California Highway Patrol intends to award a contract for its body-worn camera project to Taser International Inc., according to state records released this week.

CHP expects that the test will begin this summer.

Prior legislation requires the CHP to develop a plan for implementing a body-worn camera pilot program. CHP will test the body cameras at field offices in Oakland in Stockton. At the conclusion of the pilot, CHP will send a report to the Legislature on the test's outcome, likely in late 2017 or early 2018.

The Department of Finance is proposing to spend a total of $919,000 on the pilot: $853,000 for hardware, including cameras, dedicated video workstations, servers, charging bays, routers and data storage equipment; $24,000 for software for dedicated video workstations and servers; $4,000 for telecommunication upgrades to accommodate additional data; and $38,000 for contract services for server and hardware configuration and training.

"Keep in mind that the California Highway Patrol makes contact with about 4.3 million people per year. All of those would be captured on video, and so we do have to store those. And that was problematic for us to decide if we were going to use cloud or we were going to use [local] servers. And so we're going to use both during our tests to find out which one actually works best for us," CHP Commissioner Joe Farrow told a State Senate committee in April.