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Fremont County Sheriff | Cameras and location tracking on the road fleet

A camera and GPS system for Fremont County's trucks and graders arrived inside an equipment purchasing plan, priced between a transport trailer and a dump truck, and was approved with the rest of the list.

At a glance

What was bought
"Samsara GPS Camera System for Trucks and Graders" [1]
Price
$16,566.03 [1]
Who approved it
The Board of County Commissioners, unanimously [1]
Whose vehicles
Road and Bridge trucks and graders [1]
What the cameras point at
Not stated. Whether the system records the road ahead, the driver, or location alone does not appear in the county record [1]
Who can watch it
Not stated [1]
A written policy
None appears in the Board's record [1]

How it happened

  1. Decision

    Item three of seven

    The Public Works Director presents the FY2026 Road and Bridge equipment purchasing plan, mostly on SourceWell quotes. The in-budget list runs: a transport trailer at $133,586.90, the Samsara GPS camera system for trucks and graders at $16,566.03, a transport truck at $173,007.00, a grader roller at $33,990.00 and a flatbed truck at $87,001.80, with a grader and a dump truck on finance quotes. He expects about $227,500 back from surplus to balance it. Commissioner Chandler moves to approve the plan as presented, Commissioner Hill seconds, and the vote is unanimous. [1]

This one is short, because the record is short. That is the point of it.

On 9 February 2026 the Public Works Director brought the Board of County Commissioners the Road and Bridge equipment purchasing plan for the financial year. Most of it was on SourceWell quotes, the cooperative purchasing route counties use to skip a bidding round.

The in-budget list reads: a Trail King transport trailer at $133,586.90. A Samsara GPS camera system for trucks and graders at $16,566.03. A Peterbilt transport truck at $173,007.00. A grader roller at $33,990.00. A flatbed truck at $87,001.80.[1]

Commissioner Chandler moved to approve the plan as presented. Commissioner Hill seconded. All commissioners voted in favor.

What was in the middle of that list

Everything else on it is a machine that moves gravel. The second item is a system that puts a camera and a location tracker on the vehicles the county’s road crews drive.

The minutes carry no discussion of it at all. Not what the cameras point at, not whether they record the driver or the road, not who sees the location data, not how long anything is kept, not whether a policy exists. The Board did not ask, and the plan passed as one vote covering all seven lines.

Fremont County is not unusual in this. Its neighbor to the south, Franklin County, bought the same company’s trackers for five departments’ vehicles in 2024 and put the screen in the Sheriff’s dispatch center (GPS trackers on the county fleet). What is worth noticing is the shape rather than the technology: a system that watches county employees at work cost less than an eighth of what the truck beside it cost, and so it traveled with the trucks.

If you want to know where a county has put a camera, the purchasing plan is a better place to look than the agenda.

What we do not know

What you can do

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Sources

  1. 1.
    Fremont County Board of County Commissioners minutes, 9 February 2026, Road and Bridge Equipment Purchasing Plan · Meeting record · · accessed

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