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Santa Ana council asks police and staff to study dash cams for patrol vehicles and return costed plan in January
Summary
Councilmember Jesse Lopez asked the council to explore installing in-car video systems for police vehicles. The council asked staff and the police chief to return with implementation options, costs, storage needs and best practices by the second council meeting in January.
Councilmember Jesse Lopez asked the Santa Ana City Council on Oct. 7 to evaluate equipping police vehicles with dash cameras to improve transparency for transports and incidents that begin or continue in patrol vehicles.
Lopez asked staff to research best practices and return a full implementation plan. The chief of police confirmed officers already wear body-worn cameras with a 30-second buffer, but vehicle-mounted systems (dash cams) would be a separate system requiring retrofit,…
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