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Davis County Commission hears plan to ease strain on law-enforcement video storage; staff proposes $180,000 platform, cloud backup and specialist hire
Summary
County IT and prosecutors told the Davis County Commission that rising body‑cam and dash‑cam footage and increased litigation have pushed on‑premises storage to capacity; staff recommended a separate eProsecutor platform (~$180,000), Azure cloud backup (~$15,000/year) and additional staffing and bandwidth investments.
Davis County Commission members on Thursday heard a detailed presentation from county IT and the attorney’s office about mounting storage and access pressures created by body‑worn and in‑vehicle camera footage and a steady rise in litigation and records requests.
Jeff Hassett, of Commission Systems, told commissioners the county stores most agency video on an on‑premises WatchGuard system and that evidence needed for prosecution is moved into the attorney’s eProsecutor system, which aggregates material from more than a dozen agencies. Hassett said the county recorded more than 30 terabytes of case‑file video in 2023 and that 2024 had already surpassed 2023’s volume as of two weeks before the meeting.
Hassett summarized the storage and legal constraints that complicate automated purging: “An officer shall activate the body or camera prior to any law…
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