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If we re involved in an officer-involved shooting, we ask the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to conduct the investigation, but if you get the body cameras and the intent is to be transparent, then I think you should be transparent whenever something happens whether it s good or bad, Simmons said. Unless it has the potential to compromise or jeopardize an investigation, I m of the opinion that we would put out the information as quickly and openly as we possibly can.
The ECSO is not the only local enforcement agency to recently acquire body cameras with the assistance of the federal CARES Act. In January, Santa Rosa County Commissioners unanimously approved allocating $1.5 million in CARES Act funds to the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office to offset the department s budget costs, and the SRSO spent a portion of the money it saved on its own first-ever body cameras.
The Stillwater, Okla., Police Department is moving to buy body-worn cameras for its officers, which is something that the department and its officials have long said they could not afford to do.
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Can you hear me now? New microphones approved by county
On March 9, there will be a public comment period from 9:30-10 a.m. about the Wadena County Sheriff’s Department’s policies on body worn cameras and unmanned aerial vehicles. 3:30 pm, Feb. 16, 2021 ×
Wadena County board members include commissioners Bill Stearns (left), Murlyn Kreklau, board chair Sheldon Monson, Mike Weyer and Jon Kangas.
Photo courtesy of the Verndale Sun
County commission meetings have included plenty of unwanted silence with microphones dying, volume levels fluctuating and commissioners practically eating the microphone to be heard online. But with this week’s approval of new microphones, hopefully all statements can be heard- instead of “Is someone talking?” or “We can’t hear you.”