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Council backs limited camera buys, seeks bigger plan for public-safety video network
Summary
Council members directed staff to add several mobile and permanent public-safety cameras and to pursue a longer-term plan to expand license-plate readers and analytics after staff outlined gaps in server capacity, disaster recovery and west-side coverage.
Fayetteville council members directed staff to pursue a phased enhancement of the city’s public-safety camera network and analytics capability and approved a modest immediate purchase of mobile cameras and at least five fixed cameras in western neighborhoods.
Police and IT staff told the council the city’s current video network has coverage gaps on the west and southwest sides of town and lacks a dedicated, climate-controlled server room and disaster recovery for recordings. Those limitations reduce video retention and create single points of failure, staff said.
Chief of Police Darren Joyce (title in transcript:…
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