A resolution for a multi-million dollar contract for the Knoxville Police Department is passed by Knoxville’s City Council.
Last (Tuesday) night, council members approved the nearly $28 million dollar deal with Axon. The resolution passed 7-2.
Noel says 95% of the deal, which will be paid out over the next 11-and-a-half years, will fund what the city is already paying for, such as body cameras and other policing tools.
The other 5% is what caused controversy. It’s a new software to create a real-time information center, essentially a hub to monitor video from public and private surveillance cameras.
The system would allow people to register public-facing cameras into a database. Noel says he wants to be clear that it’s voluntary.
