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Council approves 15 downtown public‑safety cameras after debate over data sharing
Summary
Council approved a donation-turned-grant that will fund 15 downtown public-safety cameras and requires MNPD to provide publicly available crime statistics to the Nashville Downtown Partnership; public commenters and some council members raised privacy and state-cooperation concerns.
At a committee meeting, the council approved RS2026-1733 as substituted, accepting funds from the Nashville Downtown Partnership to assist the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department in replacing or supplementing 15 downtown public-safety cameras.
The substitute converts the original donation agreement into a grant agreement and adds a condition requiring MNPD to provide publicly available crime statistics related to the grant area to the Nashville Downtown Partnership to satisfy state grant reporting requirements, Special Counsel said.
Public commenters and several council members pressed staff on camera capabilities, locations and who can access…
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