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Placer County approves $9.68 million Axon contract for body cameras, evidence platform
Summary
The board voted to approve a five-year agreement with Axon Enterprise for body-worn cameras, in-car cameras, tasers and the Evidence.com platform to standardize digital evidence and speed evidence sharing with the district attorney; first-year funding and a $1 million budget amendment were approved.
Placer County supervisors voted 5-0 on Oct. 14 to approve a five-year, $9,683,755.71 agreement with Axon Enterprise Inc. to replace the county's current digital-evidence systems and expand body-worn camera, in-car video and Taser deployment across county law enforcement.
The contract covers 500 body-worn cameras, 132 in-car cameras, 400 tasers, the Axon Evidence cloud platform and associated storage and software, the sheriff's office said. The first-year payment is $1,838,770.46; the county approved a $1,000,000 budget amendment to cover initial costs out of the public safety fund.
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