Deputies in Orange County, Calif. will begin wearing body-worn cameras as soon as August, says Sheriff Don Barnes. Speaking during a July 20 live stream, Barnes said it has taken time to develop and implement a body camera program for 2,000 deputies. “There’s a lot of factors that go into the review of a body-worn camera program, such as bandwidth, size of the file storage, people that it takes to add into the department to monitor and manage a body-worn cameras as well,” he said. “That body-worn camera program will be coming online hopefully by next month, we could be seeing deputies wearing body-worn cameras as soon as 30 days.” While some deputies could start to wear them in August, the sheriff said he hopes to have the program fully implemented within a year. Prior to the system going live, the Orange County Board of Supervisors must approve the five-year, $12.7 million plan during its …
Orange County Sheriff’s Deputies to Start Wearing Body Cameras
July 23, 2021
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