Mono County Sheriff | Body cameras
The Board approved a fiscal year 2023-24 budget adjustment for a federal body-camera grant. The minutes state a $72,000 total grant but do not establish a vendor, device count, purchase, deployment, policy, or retention period.
At a glance
- Board action
- Approved June 4, 2024 [1]
- Total grant stated in minutes
- $72,000 [1]
- Budget adjustment stated in minutes
- $56,000 [1]
- Vendor and device count
- not stated in the Board minutes reviewed [1]
- Purchase or deployment
- the budget action does not establish either one [1]
- Policy and retention
- not stated in the Board minutes reviewed [1]
How it happened
- Decision
Board approves the body-camera grant budget adjustment
The Board approves the fiscal year 2023-24 adjustment on the consent calendar. The minutes state that an $18,000 grant acceptance was followed by a $54,000 additional award, bringing the grant total to $72,000. They separately describe the budget adjustment as $56,000. [1]
What the Board approved
On June 4, 2024, the Board of Supervisors approved a fiscal year 2023-24 budget adjustment for a federal grant to purchase body-worn cameras. The consent-calendar action passed 4-0, with one supervisor absent, as minute order M24-102.[1]
The minutes state that the Board had earlier accepted an $18,000 grant, that the Sheriff’s Office later received an additional $54,000, and that the total grant reached $72,000. The same passage describes the budget adjustment as $56,000. The reviewed record does not reconcile the difference between the stated grant increase and adjustment.[1]
What remains unconfirmed
The action establishes approved funding for a purchase. It does not identify a vendor, camera model, device quantity, contract, order, invoice, delivery, acceptance, or deployment date. The minutes also do not state an activation policy, retention schedule, access and audit rules, or an evidence-storage platform.[1]
The approved status reflects the Board action without treating the grant budget as proof that a body-camera system is operating.
Questions
- Did Mono County approve body cameras for the Sheriff's Office?
- The Board approved a fiscal year 2023-24 budget adjustment for a federal grant to purchase body-worn cameras. The minutes do not establish that the cameras were purchased or deployed. [1]
- How much funding was approved?
- The minutes state a $72,000 total grant and describe the approved budget adjustment as $56,000. They also say an earlier $18,000 acceptance was followed by a $54,000 additional award, so this page preserves the figures without trying to reconcile them. [1]
- How many cameras were included?
- The Board minutes reviewed do not state a camera quantity, vendor, or model. [1]
- Is the body-camera system operating?
- The minutes establish budget approval, not purchase, delivery, or deployment. This page therefore labels the system approved rather than active. [1]
What we do not know
- Which contract, order form, invoice, and acceptance records followed the grant budget action?
- How many cameras were delivered, assigned, operational, or held as spares?
- Which policy governs activation, access, auditing, public release, sharing, retention, and deletion?
- Which evidence platform stores recordings, and what vendor-access and termination terms apply?
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- 1. Mono County Board of Supervisors minutes, June 4, 2024 (minute order M24-102) · Meeting record · · accessed · archived copy
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