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NEW BRIGHTON DEPARTMENT OF <br />PUBLIC SAFETY <br />Memorandum <br />To: City Manager <br />Mayor <br />Council Members <br />Public Safety Commissioners <br />From: Tony Paetznick, Director of Public Safety <br />Subject: Police Body Worn Cameras (BWC) <br />Date: September 22, 2017 <br /> <br />Introduction <br />For more than two decades, New Brighton police officers have been equipped with in-car video <br />recording systems to capture video evidence from the windshield vantage point of their squad cars. <br />Similarly, since its construction in 2002, technologies within the New Brighton Public Safety Center have <br />recorded interviews with suspects, victims, and witnesses, along with documenting interactions <br />between the police and public. Consistent with the President’s Task Force Report on 21st Century <br />Policing, the New Brighton Department of Public Safety is now exploring the expansion of such video <br />recording systems by implementing a police body worn camera program. <br />Historical Timeline <br />March 2009: $20,000 Minnesota Office of Justice Programs grant for in-squad camera systems (eight- <br />year lifecycle) <br />May 2015: final report release of President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing <br />September 2015: application for temporary classification of government data denied by Minnesota <br />Department of Administration <br />August 2016: Minnesota Session Law 171 provides for the classification of data collected by portable <br />recording systems (police body-worn cameras), retention and destruction of the data, audits of the data, <br />as well as public comment and written policy requirements <br />October 2016: New Brighton City Council referral to Public Safety Commission <br />December 2016: Police Division technology work group recommendation of single-platform/compatible <br />video evidence collection via in-squad, body worn, and fixed-facility (interview room) camera system <br /> <br />