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Tigard council hears presentation on FUSUS by Axon real-time camera network; council asks for more data and policy detail
Summary
Police and vendor representatives briefed the Tigard City Council on FUSUS by Axon, a real-time information-sharing platform that can connect city, business and private cameras. Councilors raised privacy, data ownership and oversight questions and asked staff to gather more information before the city considers a contract.
Police leaders and an Axon representative presented a proposal for the city to consider participation in FUSUS by Axon, a platform that can aggregate live and recorded camera feeds and other data for real-time operational use, Police Chief Jamie McDonald said at the Jan. 14 meeting.
"This opportunity has me excited," McDonald told councilors, saying the system could "allow officers to...be safer when they're responding to things, and be able to be more effective doing follow-up investigations."
What FUSUS would do: City staff and Axon described the platform as a tool that can integrate computer-aided dispatch (CAD), body-worn camera and in-car video feeds, city-owned video, and permissively shared business cameras into a single interface. An Axon account executive, Andy Grapp, said the system is "technology agnostic" and can ingest many camera types; a hardware…
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