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After staff shooting, Idaho DOC proposes new transport team, drone detection and call‑analysis tools
Summary
Following a spring ambush that wounded correctional staff, the Department of Correction requested funding for mail scanning, drone detection, phone‑call transcription analytics, an expanded transport bureau and a pilot body‑worn camera program for selected facilities.
The Idaho Department of Correction told the Joint Finance Preparations Committee on Feb. 4 that a violent ambush during a medical transport last spring exposed security gaps and prompted the agency to request a package of new security measures, an expanded transport bureau and technology to detect contraband entering prisons.
Noah Peterson, a Legislative Services Office analyst, said the proposal included one‑time and ongoing requests: digital mail scanning, a layered drone detection system, phone‑call transcription and analysis (the LEO technology), expansion of the transport bureau with 12 FTP and equipped vehicles, and a body‑worn camera pilot funded largely by federal grants. The combined first‑year supplemental for some items totaled about $795,000 for partial-year implementation; ongoing full‑year costs were projected at $2.397 million for the surveillance technologies alone.
The requested digital mail scanning would route incoming mail off‑site to be opened, scanned and…
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