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After staff shooting, Idaho DOC seeks mail scanning, drone detection, transport expansion and body‑worn camera pilot
Summary
Following a spring attack on staff during an emergency medical transport, the Department of Correction proposed a package of security investments — digital mail scanning, drone detection, phone transcription (LEO), a transport bureau expansion and a federal body‑worn camera pilot — aimed at preventing contraband and protecting staff.
The Idaho Department of Correction asked the Joint Finance Preparations Committee on Feb. 4 for supplemental and ongoing funding to address vulnerabilities exposed by a spring incident in which staff were shot while returning an inmate from medical care.
Noah Peterson, budget and policy analyst, summarized a cluster of supplemental requests the agency presented as responses to that incident. The package includes one‑time and ongoing amounts for three technology lines — digital mail scanning, drone detection and a phone‑call transcription and analysis system identified in testimony as “LEO” intelligence software — plus personnel and equipment to expand the transport bureau and a federal body‑worn camera pilot.
Peterson said the one‑year cost to implement the surveillance technologies in full would be about $795,000 for the remainder of FY2025,…
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