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Public Safety Committee accepts $500,000 JAG grant to expand county license-plate readers
Summary
Orange County Public Safety Committee voted to accept a $500,000 Edward Byrne Memorial JAG award to install and share license-plate reader cameras countywide; officials said policy, auditing and interstate siting remain to be decided.
The Orange County Public Safety Committee voted to accept and appropriate a $500,000 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant to install and integrate license-plate reader (LPR) cameras across the county.
Committee members approved the award during the meeting after the county’s Department of Emergency Services described how the funding will be used to add LPR cameras and connect them with Orange County E-911, local police departments, the New York State Intelligence Center and the Hudson Valley Scribe Analysis Center.
The award “will be applied…
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