Oakland voters approve purchase of police body cameras, AI software

Oakland voters approve purchase of police body cameras, AI software

Voters signed off on the $126,000, five-year purchase contract with Axon at a special town meeting Wednesday.

California Highway Patrol to equip all 7,600 officers with body cameras - Local News Matters

THREE YEARS AFTER CalMatters’ reporting revealed that only 3% of California Highway Patrol officers wore body cameras, one of the state’s largest police forces plans to equip all its officers with the technology by next year.  In 2015, now-retired Assemblymember Reginald Jones-Sawyer pitched a $10 million plan to give all CHP officers body cameras. Lawmakers landed on a one-year, $1 million pilot program. Officers recorded nearly 93,000 videos w…