Washington Parish Sheriff Randy Seal is equipping his enforcement deputies with body cameras.
Sheriff Seal signed a contract with Axon Enterprise (formerly TASER International) to purchase body cameras for criminal patrol enforcement deputies with plans to expand to narcotics, civil and investigations as budgeting permits.
The $185,000, five-year contract includes the cameras, training and, more importantly, the storage and records management for the cameras and footage.
Sheriff Seal said purchasing body cameras has been one of his top priorities and his administration made the effort to find the money in the agency’s general fund to purchase the cameras.
