Greenwood police seek to add three license‑plate readers and live‑view capability

Chief Bison of the Greenville Police Department asked the Greenwood Board of Public Ports and Safety to approve a vendor contract described in the record as a "clock safety contract" that would add three license‑plate‑reader cameras to the city’s existing eight and install vendor-provided "live view" capability on existing and new cameras. "So we will also be getting live view cameras for all of our existing and new cameras that we're adding," Bison said, adding the capability would help officers "prove that they were where we said they were."

Board members placed the proposed contract before the board; a motion and second to approve were recorded. The transcript includes initial discussion about the contract, but the available segment does not contain a recorded roll‑call or voice vote on that specific motion.

The request is presented as an expansion of an existing camera infrastructure. Board members did not raise technical or legal objections on the record during the available discussion; questions and additional consideration about the contract language were deferred to staff in subsequent agenda work.

Because the transcript does not include a final vote on the contract in the available segments, the status of formal approval is not specified in the record. The board later considered other procurement and development matters during the same meeting.