FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office recently became one of the last departments in South Florida to equip its deputies with body cameras. Now, it is one of the first in the state to use cameras that livestream.
“It took some time,” Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said at a news conference Thursday that highlighted the cameras’ livestreaming capabilities. “But I think that the time we took put us up to where we need to be.”
Over the past six years, as local police agencies throughout the county joined a growing number of departments across the U.S that use body cameras, the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office held back. Bradshaw said repeatedly that he would equip his deputies with the cameras if the county provided all of the money, but he did not think the technology was “where it needed to be.”
