Athens-Clarke County’s Real-Time Crime Center is getting closer to fruition.
ACC commissioners are set to vote in early September on whether to spend just over half a million dollars on technology in the crime center. That funding, if approved, will go towards building out the space for the crime center, including computers, work stations, and a video wall to display camera feeds from around the downtown area.
Originally intended to be a multi-year project, the crime center’s implementation was fast tracked earlier this year as part of a package of public safety improvements introduced by Mayor Kelly Girtz in the wake of the murder of former UGA student Laken Riley on the university campus.
The funding for the Real-Time Crime Center seems likely to pass at the commission meeting on September 3. Earlier this week, commissioners placed the item on their consent agenda, reserved for measures that can be approved without debate. Commissioners may still remove the item from the consent agenda for discussion at their meeting, however.
