"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.