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Public-safety technology contracts the Santa Barbara City Council took up since 2022. All Santa Barbara meetings.

Extracted automatically — check the source. These rows were read out of the cities' own agendas, staff reports and minutes by a language model (claude-haiku-5-5/v3) on 2026-10-19. Each amount links to the passage it came from and each row to the city's original file, which is the official record. Rows marked check had a problem the checks caught.
5actions
3vendors
$2,204,157approved (recorded vote)
$56,810proposed, no vote in the index

Dollar totals add the amount each action states: an amendment's new total can repeat an earlier award, and annual amounts are counted once. Use them as a rough size, the rows for detail.

Actions

DateVendorItemActionAmountOutcomeSources
2026-09-15VerkadaConsideration and Direction Regarding Contracting for an Alternative Automated License Plate Reader Camera System, Verkada, Selected by City Staff
License plate readers
Award—No vote recordedagenda · packet · city original
2026-08-25VerkadaVerkada LPR system purchase of cameras and five-year licenses (Agenda Item No. 5)
License plate readers
Purchase order$56,810No vote recordedpacket · city original
2026-05-19LensLockCity's Best Interest Waiver Purchase for Lease of Body Worn Cameras
Bundles
Award$1,468,126Approvedagenda · minutes · packet · packet · city original
2023-04-25LensLockBest Interest Waiver Purchases for Body Worn Cameras, Energy Weapons and Service Weapons (A: LensLock body cameras)
Body and in-car cameras
Purchase order$736,031Approvedagenda · minutes · packet · packet · city original
2023-04-25Axon EnterpriseBest Interest Waiver Purchases for Body Worn Cameras, Energy Weapons and Service Weapons (B: Axon Taser 10 purchase) check
Tasers
Purchase ordersee sourceApprovedagenda · minutes · packet · packet · city original