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Council approves GPS tracking for town vehicles, discusses police body-camera policy
Summary
Corydon approved installing GPS on town vehicles (option B) for an initial year and discussed drafting an ordinance and fee structure to manage public requests for police body-camera footage and to recoup redaction costs.
The Corydon Town Council voted to install GPS tracking on town vehicles for the first year and continued a separate conversation about police body-camera policy and associated fees.
Staff presented three procurement options for GPS gateways and dash-camera setups. The council approved "Option B" — GPS on town vehicles without front-facing dash cameras — for an initial trial year and said the town could add cameras later if desired. The motion passed after a second and a roll-call-style approval with one recorded opposition.
Separately, police staff outlined a draft process for public requests for body-camera footage. Staff said redaction and retrieval require staff time and recommended an ordinance authorizing a fee to recover those costs, rather than classifying direct payments to festivals as donations. The draft request form was modeled on another municipality’s policy; staff will bring formal ordinance language and fee amounts back to council for consideration.
The council also discussed GPS on staff cell phones and was advised that enabling GPS on personal devices would require a hard reset and extensive data handling, so the council declined that route for now.
Quotes attributed here are from staff presenting the GPS/vendor options and the town’s police representative explaining the body-camera fee rationale.
