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City Council approves master services agreement with Axon for police cameras, ALPR and evidence storage
Summary
Columbia City Council approved Council Bill 48-25 to authorize a master services and purchasing agreement with Axon Enterprise Inc. to consolidate body‑worn and in‑car cameras, add automated license plate readers and holster signal technology, and migrate digital evidence storage to Axon Evidence.
Columbia City Council on April 7 approved an ordinance authorizing a master services and purchasing agreement with Axon Enterprise Inc. to provide body‑worn cameras, in‑car cameras with automated license plate reader (ALPR) capability, holster “signal” integration and cloud evidence storage for the Columbia Police Department.
The agreement, introduced as Council Bill 48-25 and considered at second reading, folds the department’s existing body‑worn camera contract into a single Axon ecosystem and would replace the current in‑car camera platform. City staff and Axon representatives said the change would also enable features such as automated tagging of videos to CAD/case numbers, geographic auto‑tagging of nearby officer cameras, integrated ALPR reads from patrol cars, and live‑streaming capability to assist supervisors in real time.
Why it matters: city staff framed the purchase as both a technology…
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