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After on-duty shooting, Idaho corrections asks for surveillance tech, transport expansion and body‑worn camera pilot
Summary
The Idaho Department of Correction requested funding to install digital mail scanning, drone detection, call‑transcription tools, expand a transport bureau with 12 positions and pilot body‑worn cameras following a staff ambush during a hospital transport.
The Idaho Department of Correction told the Joint Finance Preparations Committee it needs new surveillance tools and a larger transport capability after an armed ambush during an inmate hospital transport in spring 2024 that left three correctional staff wounded.
Analyst Noah Peterson and Director Josh Tewalt presented the State Prisons Division requests on Feb. 4, including a FY2025 supplemental and FY2026 ongoing funding for multiple security items. The agency tied several requests directly to vulnerabilities identified after the ambush and asked the committee to consider them as part of the FY2026 budget.
Major technology requests: the department seeks $795,000 in supplemental general-fund spending to begin implementing three systems in FY2025 — digital mail scanning, a layered drone‑detection system and a phone‑call transcription and analysis tool (described in the presentation as “LEO intelligence software”). For a full year those items would total $2,397,000…
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