Skip to main content

Documenting Police Tech in Our Communities
with Open Source Research


Include the following technologies:

Watsonville Police Department: Body-worn Cameras

Axon-brand body-worn camera laying on a table
An example of an Axon body-worn camera.
Credit: City of Lafayette, IN
Agency Watsonville Police Department
Location Watsonville, CA
Technology Body-worn Cameras
Vendor Axon

The Watsonville Police Department equipped all of its officers with 75 Axon body-worn Cameras in 2019. The five-year contract cost more than $470,000.

Links
News article (Patch)
News article (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
Meeting documents (Watsonville Legistar)

More about this technology

Video cameras that police attach to their uniforms to record interactions with the public.

Axon-brand body-worn camera laying on a table
An example of an Axon body-worn camera.
Credit: City of Lafayette, IN