The Cherokee Sheriff's Office wants a ten year, $37.3 million Axon contract covering TASERs, body and dash cameras, evidence storage, and unspecified "future" technology. This year, four Cherokee deputies were arrested for alleged license plate reader misuse, and the agenda summary mentions no safeguards. NGA CAN is asking commissioners to vote no as written on October 20. Join our town hall October 7 in Woodstock.

Tonight at 6:00, five people decide what nearly 300,000 residents pay. Three residents spoke at the last hearing.

Item 7.2 came off Monday's agenda, but it isn't dead. The city had scheduled a silent consent vote on a contract that had already been replaced by a newer version the City Attorney never reviewed. Two residents spoke. A third warned about data centers, which is where this data would actually live. And the City Manager has now promised in writing, to the full Council, that it returns as a regular agenda item with public comment.

On the night of Monday, July 27th, Woodstock City Council votes on a three year contract connecting our police department's records to a platform run by the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office and built by Peregrine Technologies, a San Francisco company valued at $6.8 billion. The contract has no stated price for years two and three. The County sets it, with no cap and no Council vote. It renews itself automatically. It contains no retention limit, no audit requirement, and no d

There is a major development proposal going before the Woodstock City Council tonight, and if the past few years have taught us anything about how this council operates, it is that the decisions they make in that chamber rarely reflect what residents actually want. The least we can do is make sure our voices are in the room. The hearing is at 7 p.m. tonight, Monday, April 27, at Chambers at City Center, 8534 Main St. in downtown Woodstock. Be there. Here is what is on the t