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County outlines multi-year plan to replace aging radios for law enforcement and county staff
Summary
IT presented a multi-year radio replacement schedule to replace handheld and in-car radios, prioritizing law-enforcement handhelds; staff proposed alternatives to spread costs across fiscal years and discussed sharing or transferring older radios to other counties or emergency-management caches.
Eric Colwell told the court that many of the handheld and in-car radios used by law enforcement, investigators and other county staff are beyond their typical 7–10 year service life, with some radios 10–12 years old. He presented a replacement plan that would replace handheld radios in FY26 and in-car radios later in FY30.
Colwell said a full replacement price tag for handheld radios was discussed at approximately $2.6 million in FY26 and an additional $1.4 million to replace in-car…
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