Fremont County Sheriff | The radar in the jail cells
Fremont County put a radar that senses the bodies of people in its holding cells. It was approved in the same meeting as an elevator maintenance contract, and cost less than the elevators.
At a glance
- What it is
- Biometric life detection radar in the holding cells [1]
- Who approved it
- The Board of County Commissioners, unanimously [1]
- Price
- $5,500 up front, then $1,000 a year [1]
- Vendor
- Integrity Communications Solutions LLC [1]
- What it records, and for how long
- Not stated. The minutes describe the purpose but not what the system captures, whether anything is stored, or who can see it [1]
- A written policy
- None appears in the Board's record [1]
How it happened
- Decision
Approved between an elevator and a school resource officer agreement
The Sheriff presents a contract for biometric life detection radar in the cells, to check that people held there are well, aimed at those refusing food or with other things going on. The cost is $5,500 up front and $1,000 a year in maintenance, and it is in the budget. Commissioner Dance moves to approve and adopt the contract with Integrity Communications Solutions LLC for the new jail holding cell monitoring system, Commissioner Chandler seconds, and the vote is unanimous. The item before it was an elevator maintenance agreement at $8,160 a year; the item after it was the annual agreement with the school district for two school resource deputies. [1]
Life detection radar senses a body through a wall or a door. It picks up breathing and heartbeat without a camera and without contact. It is sold for search and rescue in collapsed buildings, for tactical entry, and for watching people in custody.
Fremont County bought one for its jail’s holding cells on 9 February 2026.
What the Board was told
The Sheriff’s item came after an elevator maintenance agreement and before the annual agreement with the school district for two school resource deputies.
The minutes record it in three sentences. The next contract is for biometric life detection radar in the cells to make sure inmates are doing ok health-wise. This is for medical monitoring for those inmates that refuse to eat or have other things going on. The cost will be $5,500 up front, and then $1,000 yearly maintenance, and it is in the budget.[1]
Commissioner Dance moved to approve and adopt the contract with Integrity Communications Solutions LLC for the new jail holding cell monitoring system. Commissioner Chandler seconded. A full voice vote was heard with all commissioners voting in favor.
What the record does not say
A holding cell is where a county puts somebody it has just arrested, before anything has been proved. The stated purpose here is care: the county wants to know if a person who has stopped eating is in trouble. That is a real problem, and jails have people die in them.
What the minutes do not say is what the system captures. Whether it records at all, or only shows a live reading. Whether anything is stored, and if so for how long. Who can look at it. Whether the person in the cell is told it is there. Whether anybody outside the Sheriff’s Office reviewed a policy for it, as the county’s lawyer did for the courthouse cameras in 2016.
None of that is in the Board’s record, and there is no written policy for it there either. The cost of the contract, at $5,500 and $1,000 a year, is less than the elevator agreement approved in the item before it.
What we do not know
- What does the radar actually capture, and is any of it recorded and kept?
- Who can view it, and is there a log of who has?
- Are the people in the cells told it is there?
- Is there a written policy governing it, and did anyone outside the Sheriff's Office review one?
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- 1. Fremont County Board of County Commissioners minutes, 9 February 2026, jail holding cell monitoring system · Meeting record · · accessed
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