10 - Installation of License Plate Reader Cameras

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Item No. 10 Memorandum TO: Mayor & City Council FROM: Richard W. Salter Jr., Chief of Police SUBJECT: TxDOT and City of Paris Agreement for the construction, maintenance and operation of Fixed License Plate Readers on along state roadways in the City of Paris and Lamar County. DATE: December 13, 2021 BACKGROUND: In a letter dated January 19, 2021, from the Texas Department of Public Safety (TXDPS) to former Paris Police Chief Bob Hundley, TXDPS validated that the Paris Police Department satisfied the necessary law enforcement requirements for the use of License Plate Readers On October 25, 2021, the Lamar County Commissioner's Court (LCCC) voted to allow the City of Paris to install two License Plate Reader Cameras in the vicinity of Highway 19/24 South near the intersection of FM 1184; and in the vicinity of US 271 North near its intersection with FM 3298 in support of the Northeast Texas Auto Theft Task Force. On this same date the LCCC passed a Resolution approved and entered into an Inter -local Agreement with the City of Paris support of the Northeast Texas Auto Theft Task Force, which is funded through a Texas Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Authority Grant. STATUS OF ISSUE: The City of Paris, in an effort to expand its current Automated License Plate Reader network within the City of Paris and along state roadways within Lamar County has requested the State to permit the construction, maintenance and operation of additional Fixed License Plate Readers along the following described roadways • 2600 block Farm Rd 79, Paris, TX 75460 • 8000 block US -271, Powderly, TX 75473 • Vicinity of TX Hwy 19/24 and FM 1184, (GCF6+X8 Howland, Texas) • 200 block E. Provine St, Paris, TX 75460 • 1600 block US -271 BUS, Paris, TX 75460 • 3200 block US -271, Paris, TX 75462