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Paulding County sheriff seeks opioid-settlement funds for touchless jail-monitoring sensors
Summary
Sheriff Henson asked commissioners to fund 62 contactless monitoring sensors for the county jail with opioid-settlement dollars, citing inmate safety and staff protection; vendor Reassurance Solutions described FDA clearance, installation details and an annual maintenance fee.
Sheriff Henson presented a request to purchase 62 contactless monitoring sensors for the Paulding County jail and said funding would come from opioid-settlement monies. The sheriff framed the devices as an additional safety measure for inmates on medical or suicide-watch observation.
"These sensors are going to help us monitor. This is not going to negate the human eye that we already have on there," Sheriff Henson said, describing plans to place units in medical cells, Supermax cells and other housing areas to detect heart rate, respiration and movement and to send alarms to multiple control stations.
Vendor representatives from Reassurance Solutions (John Lloyd, president and CEO, and nurse Crystal Key) explained the technology and deployment. "Our mission is simple. It's to provide innovative technologies that reduce in-custody deaths," John Lloyd said, and he described the company’s deployment experience and an FDA-cleared radar-based sensing approach the firm uses.
Staff described a purchase price shown in the meeting materials (listed as $610,000 for 62 sensors, gateway equipment and a five-year maintenance agreement) and an annual maintenance cost the vendor quoted at $1,080 per sensor per year (about $65,000 per year) after the initial period. Sheriff Henson and vendor staff said the first five years of maintenance are expected to be covered from opioid funds, and that installation would include network cabling and gateways.
Commissioners asked about mounting, inmate access and power; staff said the devices will be installed in vandal-resistant enclosures, mounted out of reach where possible, and run over local area network (Power over Ethernet) connections. The sheriff also emphasized staff-protection benefits, saying sensors can help distinguish true medical emergencies from false alarms.
The transcript records the presentation and Q&A; it does not include a recorded final vote on the procurement during this session.
