The Batavia Police Department will soon be getting new body cameras with AI features, after the Batavia City Council on Monday OK’d a five-year contract with Axon Enterprise, Inc.

This will be a new contract for the department, as its current five-year contract with Midwest Public Safety for Getac body-worn cameras for officers is expiring in March, according to a memo from Batavia Police Chief Eric Blowers.

As its current contract ends, the department considered three different vendors, including its current vendor, per the memo. The Axon contract was the most expensive of the three options, coming in at just under $765,000 for five years.

That amounts to a little under $153,000 annually, and paying for the contract in five installments will not lead to any interest or penalty, per t

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