Officials plan to upgrade the outdated security cameras in the county jail as part of a proposed $366 million facility remodel and expansion project. Separately, the County Auditor announced that video cameras are being installed at all 22 official ballot drop boxes to enhance election security. This measure, alongside new fire suppression devices, was implemented after a ballot box in East Vancouver was intentionally set on fire.
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Clark County Close Up · Aug 30, 2026 · 3:09–3:22 · Watch on CVTV ↗
Keywords: cameras
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2:08 collaborated with all of the law and justice and public safety departments. The council unanimously agreed that now was the time to put this forward. The problems facing, that the incarcerated community is facing, are more complex and more costly. Mental health, addiction, and mental health. Just physical health itself. People are in the jail, you know, that's rock bottom for most people. And we're trying to address all of the needs that they have so that we're not really seeing a revolving door. We'll serve as best we can. To better understand the request for jail expansion and remodel, we took a walking tour of the current — jail facility. So again, she's got three or four or five screens that she's managing at the same time.
3:05 And again, as we look at those and seeing what our staff are doing, it's improving cameras, it's improving access, it's improving the technology that — this is old technology and oftentimes it's at the end of its life. So this is our Sallyport area, right? And it's a semi-secured area, but at the same time, we have folks. And so this is often full with three police officers, three police cars at least. This deputy right here who's waiting to take or have this person brought into the jail, right? He's been here anywhere from 20 to 30 to an hour to an hour and a half, depending on if he was the first, the third, or the fifth person. This is really the largest funnel for our public safety partners, law enforcement on the road, where they have to come here and wait. And again, it's because we have such a small space in here in the booking counters. And oftentimes, because there's a lot of processes that they're not able to see. This is our administrative segregation area and our suicide watch area.
4:05 And so again, he has many inmates that he's keeping an eye on, right? So this side behind you or to this side right here is our administrative segregation. So those inmates that are problematic upstairs, sometimes because we just don't have enough bed spaces, they are brought down here because it's an extra bed, right?
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expansion and remodel, we took a walking tour of the current — jail facility. So again, she's got three or four or five screens that she's managing at the same time. And again, as we look at those and seeing what our staff are doing, it's improving cameras, it's improving access, it's improving the technology that — this is old technology and oftentimes it's at the end of its life. So this is our Sallyport area, right? And it's a semi-secured area, but at the same time, we have folks. And so th