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Brazos County approves Axon law-enforcement technology contract amid questions over procurement and deadline
Summary
The Brazos County Commissioners Court approved a multi-year contract with Axon for body cameras, Tasers, drones, records management and cloud storage after a presentation by the sheriff's office. Commissioners and the public raised concerns about the vendor deadline, purchasing-department involvement and increased annual costs.
Brazos County Commissioners on June 24 approved contract number 25-136 with Axon to supply Tasers, body and in-car cameras, a records-management system (RMS), drone equipment, cloud evidence storage and related AI-enabled services for county law-enforcement agencies.
The item followed a presentation from Lucinda Garrett House of the Brazos County Sheriff's Office, who said the county was being offered a discounted price that would expire July 1 and that the current contract for Tasers, cameras and in-car systems expires in January 2027. "The reason that we're here today, talking about this Axon program is that as part of a national agenda or initiative that Axon has done, they're offering us a discounted price on part of the contract that we're looking at today that, that goes away if we don't sign it by July 1," House said.
House described features the county would adopt: migration to Axon's RMS, expanded third-party (cloud) storage for evidence, an…
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