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After Langan Park shooting, city outlines fragmented camera network and plan to consolidate systems
Summary
Council heard an update on the Langan Park shooting investigation and the city's fragmented camera network. Police staff said about 1,500 city cameras exist across multiple systems, some not NDAA-compliant, and the city has budgeted to standardize equipment and management.
City staff updated the council on the ongoing investigation into a shooting at Langan Park and described significant limits in the city’s public-camera network that have complicated evidence gathering.
An unnamed police chief told the council the city has about 1,500 cameras across departments, with roughly 400 belonging to the Mobile Police Department; through Operation Shield the city has access to another roughly 5,000 cameras, and camera feeds are managed across eight different systems in five departments. “The city has approximately 1,500 cameras, for…
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