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Sacramento Approves Contract for Body-Worn Cameras

The Sacramento City Council approved Tuesday evening a five-year, $3.95 million contract with Taser International to purchase equipment supporting a body camera program for the city's law enforcement personnel.

The Sacramento City Council approved Tuesday evening a five-year, $3.95 million contract with Taser International to purchase equipment supporting a body camera program for the city's law enforcement personnel.

The agreement includes the purchase of about 850 body cameras, docking stations and other equipment; software; licensing; and data storage within the vendor's Evidence.com cloud-based environment. Sacramento is using approximately $600,000 in federal grants for some of the upfront costs.

Pending approval tonight, Sacramento expects to begin deploying the body cameras this month, with full rollout slated as soon as September. The contract will continue through February 2022.

During field testing in 2015 and 2016, the Sacramento Police Department considered products from Utility-BodyWorn; Safariland-VIEVU; Taser; WatchGuard Technologies Inc.; and Panasonic, according to a City Council memo.

The data stored by Taser will comply with the FBI Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) standard, according to the standard. Last year the Sacramento Police Department adopted a policy for using body-worn cameras.

Here's some more detail about the multi-year spending plan:

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Matt Williams was Managing Editor of Techwire from June 2014 through May 2017.