The Middlesex County Board of Supervisors is expected to consider adoption of an expenditure to purchase body-worn cameras for the Middlesex County Sheriff’s Office at the board’s Aug. 5 regular monthly meeting.
On June 16, the supervisors-appointed “Body Camera Committee,” recommended in a letter to County Administrator Matt Walker from Commonwealth’s Attorney Michael T. Hurd that “the study group on body-worn cameras met on April 28 and on May 13. The committee voted in favor of recommending to the board that body-worn cameras be implemented and the board approve the budget request of the sheriff’s office and the commonwealth’s attorney.”
At the July 8 board meeting, Dawn Moore, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Middlesex Branch Unit 7091, Hurd and Jamaica District Supervisor Wayne Jessie encouraged the board to vote to appropriate funds to purchase body cameras.
