Item #05
Date: September 15, 2026
To: Mayor and City Council
From: Vance Nabeta, Chief of Police
Subject: Authorize the City Manager to Submit an Application for Funding the Marysville Police Integrated Body-Worn Camera Program
Recommendation:
Adopt a Resolution authorizing the City Manager or his designee, to submit an application for funding for the “Marysille Police Integrated Body-Worn Camera Program” to the Department of Justice Assistance under the FY26 BJA Body-Worn Camera Policy and Implementation Program to Support Law Enforcement.
Rationale for Recommendation:
Adopt a resolution authorizing the City Manager, or designee, to submit an application to the U.S.
Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance, for up to $50,000 under Category 1 of the FY 2026 Body Worn Camera Policy and Implementation Program; authorize the required dollar-for-dollar City match of up to $50,000 authorize acceptance of the award if offered; and authorize execution of grant documents and non-material amendments necessary to administer the project, subject to approval as to form by the City Attorney and availability of appropriations.
Background:
The Bureau of Justice Assistance released the FY 2026 Body Worn Camera Policy and Implementation Program to Support Law Enforcement Agencies, identified as O-BJA-2026-172677. Category 1 supports state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement agencies seeking to establish or expand body-worn camera programs. The opportunity supports camera purchase or lease, policy development, training, phased deployment, and integration of body-worn cameras into agency operations.
The program is intended to improve operational effectiveness and officer safety and to strengthen the evidentiary value of body-camera footage in criminal investigations and prosecutions. Funded agencies must implement policies governing secure capture, storage, sharing, and retention; improve casemanagement integration; streamline tagging and retrieval; provide required performance reports; and submit a final body-worn camera policy.
Discussion & Analysis:
If awarded, the grant would fund up to $50,000 for the Marysville Police Body-Worn Camera Program over the three year performance period, which would be approximately 50% of the vendor contract. We anticipate the continued use body-worn cameras and this grant would coincide with the expiration of our current contract. Consequently, we would be able to upgrade our equipment with the most advanced public safety camera system and use the award to supplement the new contract.
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The proposed project would acquire 25 cameras for agency-wide deployment, including primary assignments and a controlled pool for supervisors, specialty functions, training, temporary replacement, and maintenance continuity. Procurement specifications would remain vendor-neutral but would require functions comparable to current advanced body-worn camera technology, including full-shift battery performance, high-resolution wide-angle video, configurable pre-event buffering, encrypted local storage, reliable recording prompts, secure mounting, automated upload, device-health management, location services, and optional policy-controlled live video and two-way voice communication for authorized personnel.
The interconnected evidence platform would receive camera recordings through secure docking or approved wireless transfer and preserve the original file, metadata, and audit history. The system would provide role-based permissions, multifactor authentication, retention schedules, legal holds, search, categorization, case association, review, redaction, controlled export, and secure sharing. MPD would also evaluate supported connections to its computer-aided dispatch, records, in-car video, prosecutorial, and public-disclosure workflows.
Environmental Review:
The ordinance is not a project subject to the California Environmental Quality Act under State CEQA Guidelines section 15378 because it establishes an administrative reporting and tax-enforcement mechanism without the potential to cause a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment. Alternatively, it is exempt under the common-sense exemption in State CEQA Guidelines section 15061(b)(3).
Alignment with City Council Goal(s):
Goal #4 – Enhance Public Safety
Goal #6 – Strengthen Institutional Capacity
Legal Review:
The contract is subject to review and approval as to form by the City Attorney.
Fiscal Impact:
There is no fiscal impact associated with submission of an application for grant funding. The grant award would fund 50% of the BWC program costs, up to $2,000/camera over the 3 year performance period.
With a projected contract cost of approximately $112,000 the general fund burden would be $62,000 over the three years. These figures would all be subject to procurement leading up to the expiration of the current contract in July 2027, but we would expect to continue a BWC program regardless of the award.
Attachments:
1) Resolution 2026-XX
2) Grant Abstract
3) Grant NOFO