Mariposa County District Attorney | Body cameras
The District Attorney's fiscal year 2024-25 budget named body cameras for investigators as a goal. The budget does not establish a purchase, device count, vendor, policy, or deployment.
At a glance
- Stage in the public record
- department budget goal for fiscal year 2024-25 [1]
- Intended users
- District Attorney investigators in field operations [1]
- Vendor, devices, and cost
- not stated in the District Attorney budget page reviewed [1]
- Purchase or deployment
- not established by the District Attorney budget page reviewed [1]
- Policy and retention
- not stated in the District Attorney budget page reviewed [1]
How it happened
- Context
The District Attorney budget lists body cameras as a goal
The department's goals include procuring and implementing body-worn cameras for investigators during field operations. The same page separately names implementation of Axon Justice Premier for digital evidence. [1]
The District Attorney’s section of the county’s fiscal year 2024-25 recommended budget includes a goal to procure and implement body-worn cameras for investigators during field operations.[1]
The same budget page separately lists implementation of Axon Justice Premier to improve digital evidence handling. That reference does not identify the proposed camera vendor, model, number of devices, price, storage configuration, or retention rules.[1]
The budget records a departmental goal rather than a completed purchase. It does not give an approval date, contract, purchase order, or deployment date.[1] The proposed status on this page reflects that limited record. A later procurement or operating record is needed before the system can be described as approved or active.
Questions
- Did the Mariposa County District Attorney plan to use body cameras?
- Yes. Its fiscal year 2024-25 budget listed procurement and implementation of body cameras for investigators in field operations as a department goal. [1]
- Were the cameras purchased or deployed?
- The budget page reviewed does not establish a purchase or deployment. This page therefore labels the system proposed. [1]
- Which company and camera model were selected?
- The budget page does not identify a body-camera vendor or model. It separately names Axon Justice Premier for digital evidence, which does not by itself establish the camera vendor. [1]
What we do not know
- Did the District Attorney purchase or deploy body cameras after the fiscal year 2024-25 budget?
- Which vendor, models, device count, software, and storage services were selected?
- What policy governs activation, access, sharing, public release, and retention?
- How does any body-camera system connect to Axon Justice Premier or Evidence.com?
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- 1. Mariposa County fiscal year 2024-25 recommended budget (District Attorney section) · Primary document · accessed · archived copy
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