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Randolph County approves contract for license‑plate reader cameras pending council funding
Summary
After a presentation on uses including missing‑person searches and crime investigations, the commission voted to approve a contract to install license‑plate reader cameras, contingent on the county council providing $25,000 in funding.
Speaker 3 outlined a plan to install license‑plate reader (LPR) cameras at several county intersections and said the system "would record and store information for 30 days." The speaker described four candidate locations and said the purchase would include six license‑plate readers and four live cameras.
Speaker 3 described how LPR data had aided a prior investigation after a shooting in Winchester’s southeast side: once nearby agencies uploaded data, the system produced a hit that allowed an arrest about an hour and a half after the incident. The presenter said…
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