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Surveillance-tech report: New Britain

Mentions current to 27 September 2026

This report covers meetings processed up to 2026-09-27. Anything newer shows up first in This Week in Surveillance.

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At a glance: New Britain

13 mentions of surveillance technology in 12 New Britain meetings, 2018–2025

13mentionsacross 12 meetings · read the timeline 2018–2025first to latest mention2018-06-26 → 2025-08-14 6technologies discussedBody cameras, Drones, Facial recognition, Predictive policing, Purchasing / procurement, General surveillance 3,026licence-plate searchesby New Britain police, in six towns' released Flock logs · open the dashboard 34%of known meetings transcribed299 of 871 meetings 12agenda & minutes mentionskeyword scan, not yet reviewed

Not the full history: transcripts begin 2018-05-21, but New Britain's published video archive goes back to 2017-01-11. Meetings before 2018 are not yet transcribed, so this report cannot say what was discussed then. Older meetings are still being added.

Meetings in progress: we are in the process of adding New Britain's public meetings. New Britain's meetings are not on YouTube, so each recording has to be downloaded and transcribed from its audio, which takes a little longer than towns whose meetings are captioned on YouTube. More meetings will appear here as they are transcribed.

This report collects every mention of surveillance technology found in New Britain's recorded public meetings -- automatically transcribed, then keyword-scanned. Each mention below links straight to the moment in the source video, so anything here can be checked against the recording itself.

Start with Timeline to read the discussion in order, or Findings by topic to jump to one technology.

Mentions are found by keyword and are not individually verified. A mention means the words were spoken at a public meeting -- not that the town uses, bought, or approved the technology. Read the quote and watch the clip before drawing a conclusion.

Contents

Licence-plate searches by New Britain police

Six Connecticut towns have released the Flock audit log of every search run against their cameras. Below is what that record holds for New Britain's own police department -- not a finding, just the log.

New Britain CT PD

  • 3,026 searches between 2024-09 and 2025-09 (13 months with at least one search)
  • 61 camera networks swept by the average single search
  • 99% of them reached beyond New Britain's own cameras
  • The commonest stated reason is free text or a numeric code, rather than one of the preset categories Flock introduced in December 2025

Open New Britain CT PD's search dashboard -- every one of those searches, filterable by month, stated reason, search type and how far it reached, with a How to read this tab covering what each field means and what the record cannot tell you.

A floor, not a total. The record only sees queries that reached those six towns' cameras. A single Flock query typically sweeps thousands of networks at once, so most of a Connecticut department's searching does land in it -- but the real count is higher. Nothing in it names an officer, shows a plate, or records what any search returned.

Mentions by topic: first seen / most recent

Back to the meetings. Everything above this point was about licence-plate searches -- what the town's police looked up. Everything below is about what was said: each mention is a moment in a recorded public meeting where a surveillance technology came up, with a link to that moment in the video.

Topic Mentions Meetings First seen Most recent
Body cameras 3 2 2022-11-10 2024-06-27
Drones 2 2 2019-02-04 2024-02-21
Facial recognition 1 1 2021-10-04 2021-10-04
Predictive policing 3 3 2018-06-26 2023-05-19
Purchasing / procurement 1 1 2025-06-26 2025-06-26
General surveillance 3 3 2024-08-15 2025-08-14

Timeline

12 meetings surfaced a finding (12 dated, spanning 2018-06-26 to 2025-08-14; 0 of unknown date, listed last). Newest first.

No meetings with a mention in the 30 days before 2026-09-27. The most recent was 2025-08-14.

Earlier meetings (12)

2025-08-14 -- Common Council

Common Council Regular Meeting (topics: surveillance_general)

  • surveillance_general Watch on YouTube ▸ > ...>> This is regarding $32,142 to Mammoth Security for the implementation of a new CCTV system at the water department's water filtration plant. I urge adoption....

2025-06-26 -- Common Council

Common Council Regular Meeting (topics: purchasing_broker)

  • purchasing_broker Watch on YouTube ▸ > ...we utilize for our firewalls. Um you'll actually see the following resolution is a CDWG um resolution for a UPS that equipment. If I would have you that...

2024-09-12 -- Common Council

Common Council Regular Meeting (topics: surveillance_general)

  • surveillance_general Watch on YouTube ▸ > ...of galvaniz Steel storm pipe um the existing storm pipe was tested through the CCTV in inspected and it exposed that the pipeline is nonexisting resulting in sink holes on the road and...

2024-08-15 -- Common Council

Common Council Regular Meeting (topics: surveillance_general)

  • surveillance_general Watch on YouTube ▸ > ...flooding along Eaton and Newberry Eaton Hampton Eaton and new blueberry there are Simple Solutions run a CCTV camera down the infrastructure pipes Andor perform flow monitoring to identify...

2024-06-27 -- Common Council

Common Council Regular Meeting (topics: body_camera)

  • body_camera Watch on YouTube ▸ > ...in securing uh money for body cams so Chief if you could just talk a little bit about the body cam system and how our our officers use it I know there was extensive training in in body cams and...
  • body_camera Watch on YouTube ▸ > ...second floor with the detective division uh and they can come in and do that so it all connects to both our body cam video and our uh unlimited storage so we have that at our disposal moving forward...

2024-02-21 -- Zoning Subcommittee

Zoning Subcommittee Special Meeting (topics: drone)

  • drone Watch on YouTube ▸ > ...like grilling because I know it's like other development had done previous with like drone and Corbin they don't allow you to have grills or anything outside so are there going to be able to have an...

2023-05-19 -- Consolidated Subcommittee

Consolidated Subcommittee Budget Meeting (topics: predictive_policing)

  • predictive_policing Watch on YouTube ▸ > ...school where I started my career at Manchester High School they still had a Foundry uh we don't we don't melt metal anymore in high schools but I think uh kind of out with the old Indian with the...

2023-05-08 -- Board of Education

New Britain Board of Education - 05-08-23 (topics: predictive_policing)

  • predictive_policing Watch on YouTube ▸ > ...very good public speaker last night this week um Dr Gotham for coming behalf of class it was fun and but I also want to Echo two that was a deposit on the the name...

2022-11-10 -- Common Council

Common Council Regular Meeting (topics: body_camera)

  • body_camera Watch on YouTube ▸ > ...it's from the Bureau of Justice assistance says funding available under the body worn camera policy and implementation program uh these are funds that will help...

2021-10-04 -- Board of Education

New Britain Board of Education - 10/4/2021 (topics: facial_recognition)

  • facial_recognition Watch on YouTube ▸ > ...does so every single camera is intelligent it has analytics we're not doing any sort of facial recognition there's no ferpa issues or anything like that that i know are a big...

2019-02-04 -- Board of Education

New Britain Board of Education 2-4-19 (topics: drone)

  • drone Watch on YouTube ▸ > ...know one of the highlights was about switching from the current platform of the BYOC the drone curriculum platform that initiative uses to something more centralized that people are more like...

2018-06-26 -- Common Council

New Britain Common Council Special Public Hearing - 6/26/18 (topics: predictive_policing)

  • predictive_policing Watch on YouTube ▸ > ...why I'm here thank you areare merry Palantir and Peter Davis very writings Ward [address redacted] Bristol Connecticut first of all I'd...

Findings by topic

ai_data_fusion

(no findings)

alpr

(no findings)

biometrics_other

(no findings)

body_camera

  • [2024-06-27] Common Council -- Common Council Regular Meeting

    ...second floor with the detective division uh and they can come in and do that so it all connects to both our body cam video and our uh unlimited storage so we have that at our disposal moving forward... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: body_camera, unreviewed)

  • [2024-06-27] Common Council -- Common Council Regular Meeting

    ...in securing uh money for body cams so Chief if you could just talk a little bit about the body cam system and how our our officers use it I know there was extensive training in in body cams and... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: body_camera, unreviewed)

  • [2022-11-10] Common Council -- Common Council Regular Meeting

    ...it's from the Bureau of Justice assistance says funding available under the body worn camera policy and implementation program uh these are funds that will help... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: body_camera, unreviewed)

cad

(no findings)

cell_site_sim

(no findings)

data_broker

(no findings)

doorbell_partnership

(no findings)

drone

  • [2024-02-21] Zoning Subcommittee -- Zoning Subcommittee Special Meeting

    ...like grilling because I know it's like other development had done previous with like drone and Corbin they don't allow you to have grills or anything outside so are there going to be able to have an... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)

  • [2019-02-04] Board of Education -- New Britain Board of Education 2-4-19

    ...know one of the highlights was about switching from the current platform of the BYOC the drone curriculum platform that initiative uses to something more centralized that people are more like... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)

facial_recognition

  • [2021-10-04] Board of Education -- New Britain Board of Education - 10/4/2021

    ...does so every single camera is intelligent it has analytics we're not doing any sort of facial recognition there's no ferpa issues or anything like that that i know are a big... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: facial_recognition, unreviewed)

gunshot_detection

(no findings)

mobile_forensics

(no findings)

osint_social_monitor

(no findings)

predictive_policing

  • [2023-05-19] Consolidated Subcommittee -- Consolidated Subcommittee Budget Meeting

    ...school where I started my career at Manchester High School they still had a Foundry uh we don't we don't melt metal anymore in high schools but I think uh kind of out with the old Indian with the... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: predictive_policing, unreviewed)

  • [2023-05-08] Board of Education -- New Britain Board of Education - 05-08-23

    ...very good public speaker last night this week um Dr Gotham for coming behalf of class it was fun and but I also want to Echo two that was a deposit on the the name... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: predictive_policing, unreviewed)

  • [2018-06-26] Common Council -- New Britain Common Council Special Public Hearing - 6/26/18

    ...why I'm here thank you areare merry Palantir and Peter Davis very writings Ward [address redacted] Bristol Connecticut first of all I'd... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: predictive_policing, unreviewed)

purchasing_broker

  • [2025-06-26] Common Council -- Common Council Regular Meeting

    ...we utilize for our firewalls. Um you'll actually see the following resolution is a CDWG um resolution for a UPS that equipment. If I would have you that... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: purchasing_broker, unreviewed)

rtcc

(no findings)

surveillance_general

  • [2025-08-14] Common Council -- Common Council Regular Meeting

    ...>> This is regarding $32,142 to Mammoth Security for the implementation of a new CCTV system at the water department's water filtration plant. I urge adoption.... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: surveillance_general, unreviewed)

  • [2024-09-12] Common Council -- Common Council Regular Meeting

    ...of galvaniz Steel storm pipe um the existing storm pipe was tested through the CCTV in inspected and it exposed that the pipeline is nonexisting resulting in sink holes on the road and... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: surveillance_general, unreviewed)

  • [2024-08-15] Common Council -- Common Council Regular Meeting

    ...flooding along Eaton and Newberry Eaton Hampton Eaton and new blueberry there are Simple Solutions run a CCTV camera down the infrastructure pipes Andor perform flow monitoring to identify... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: surveillance_general, unreviewed)

undercover_tools

(no findings)

vehicle_forensics

(no findings)

video_analytics

(no findings)

Agenda/minutes mentions (unreviewed -- live keyword scan, no human review queue yet)

ai_data_fusion

(no mentions)

alpr

  • [2019-12-11] Common Council -- Common Council Regular Meeting Minutes - 2019-12-11 (minutes)

    ...purchase order for the purchase of two (2) new AutoVu 3 LPR Camera Systems to include Installation and Training utilizing the State of Connecticut Contract Award #18PSX0005; and

WHEREAS, The LPR (License Plate Reader) Camera Systems are important in that the intelligence derived from these devices is critical in solving violent crimes such as homicides, assaults, and robberies. The LPRs that a... View document ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)

  • [2021-01-13] Common Council -- Common Council Regular Meeting Minutes - 2021-01-13 (minutes)

    ... accept and adopt, seconded by Ald. Smedley. So voted. Approved January 15, 2021 by Mayor Erin E. Stewart.

35299 RE: SIEMENS, INC FOR SOFTWARE UPGRADES AND REPROGRAMMING OF THE GENETEC, INC. SECURITY SYSTEM FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT

To Her Honor, the Mayor, and the Common Council of the City of New Britain: the undersigned beg leave to recommend the adoption of the follo... View document ▸ (term: alpr_vendor, unreviewed)

  • [2022-11-09] Common Council -- Common Council Regular Meeting Minutes - 2022-11-09 (minutes)

    ...ro. So voted. Approved by Mayor Erin E. Stewart November 10, 2022.

35928 RE: BUDGET APPROPRIATION – POLICE DEPARTMENT – EDWARD BYRNE MEMORIAL JUSTICE ASSISTANCE GRANT (JAG) FOR AXON FLEET 3 IN-CAR VIDEO CAMERAS

To Her Honor, the Mayor, and the Common Council of the City of New Britain: the undersigned beg leave to recommend the adoption of the following: ... View document ▸ (term: alpr_vendor, unreviewed)

  • [2023-10-25] Common Council -- Common Council Regular Meeting Minutes - 2023-10-25 (minutes)

    ... AXON 50 Fleet 3 Basic + Tap In-Car Cameras $101,400.00

    WHEREAS, the New Britain Police Department requested a purchase order for the purchase of fifty (50) AXON Fleet 3 in-car video cameras from Axon Enterprise Inc. for patrol police vehicles as the current in-car camera equipment is over 10 years and is nearing the useful life of an in-car dash camera s... View document ▸ (term: alpr_vendor, unreviewed)

biometrics_other

(no mentions)

body_camera

  • [2022-11-09] Common Council -- Common Council Regular Meeting Minutes - 2022-11-09 (minutes)

    ...November 9, 2022

                REGULAR MEETING OF THE COMMON COUNCIL
                               NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Mayor Erin E. Stewart called the Regular Meeting of the Common C... View document ▸ (term: body_camera, unreviewed)

cad

(no mentions)

cell_site_sim

(no mentions)

data_broker

(no mentions)

doorbell_partnership

(no mentions)

drone

  • [2017-06-28] Common Council -- Common Council Regular Meeting Minutes - 2017-06-28 (minutes)

    ... Surplus Vehicles during May 2017 was $24,525.50.

                                             Jack Pieper
                                         Purchasing Agent

    33905 RE: VIDEO DRONE OPERATOR AND VIDEOGRAPHY CONSULTANT SERVICES FOR CITYWIDE MARKETING INITIATIVE To Her Honor, the Mayor, and the Common Council of the City of New Britain: the undersigned beg ... View document ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)

facial_recognition

(no mentions)

gunshot_detection

(no mentions)

mobile_forensics

  • [2020-09-23] Common Council -- Common Council Regular Meeting Minutes - 2020-09-23 (minutes)

    ...d. Approved September 29, 2020 by Mayor Erin E. Stewart.

                                      NEW BUSINESS
                                  RESOLUTIONS

35218 RE: PURCHASE OF THE GRAYKEY DIGITAL FORENSIC EXTRACTION TOOL SYSTEM FOR THE NEW BRITAIN POLICE DEPARTMENT’S INVESTIGATIONS BUREAU

To Her Honor, the Mayor, and the Common Council of the City of New Bri... View document ▸ (term: mobile_forensics, unreviewed)

  • [2021-10-13] Common Council -- Common Council Minutes - 2021-10-13 (minutes)

    ... Michael Thompson

Ald. Salerno moved to accept and adopt, seconded by Ald. Beloin-Saavedra. So voted. Approved by Mayor Erin E. Stewart October 14, 2021.

35577 RE: CONTRACT RENEWAL OF THE GRAYKEY DIGITAL FORENSIC EXTRACTION TOOL SYSTEM FOR THE NEW BRITAIN POLICE INVESTIGATIONS BUREAU

To Her Honor, the Mayor, and the Common Council of the City of New Britain: the u... View document ▸ (term: mobile_forensics, unreviewed)

osint_social_monitor

(no mentions)

predictive_policing

(no mentions)

purchasing_broker

  • [2022-12-14] Common Council -- Common Council Regular Meeting Minutes - 2022-12-14 (minutes)

    ...ore, the Acting Director of the Support Services Department, Facilities, IT and PSTC Divisions, is recommending that the bid be awarded for the Migration from Exchange to Google Workspace Services to Carahsoft Technology Corporation of Reston, VA who submitted lowest responsible bid and met all of the bid specifications for the Exchange to Google Workplace Services. The price for each year shall n... View document ▸ (term: purchasing_broker, unreviewed)

rtcc

(no mentions)

surveillance_general

  • [2018-10-24] Common Council -- Common Council Regular Meeting Minutes - 2018-10-24 (minutes)

    ...omplaints; one (1) dead animal complaint; one (1) suspicious package complaint; one (1) suspicious vehicle complaint – unfounded; and one (1) recovered stolen vehicle complaint. The installation of a surveillance camera that allows 24/7 internet monitoring with recording capability, would cost approximately $18,000 per unit. It is recommended to increase the lighting in the cul-de-sac and increase... View document ▸ (term: surveillance_general, unreviewed)

  • [2018-12-12] Common Council -- Common Council Regular Meeting Minutes - 2018-12-12 (minutes)

    ...ng complaints, (1) one dead animal complaint (1) one suspicious package complaint, (1) one suspicious vehicle complaint-unfounded (1) one recovered stolen vehicle complaint.

The installation of a surveillance camera that allows 24/7 internet based monitoring during the day and night hours along with recording capabilities would cost approximately $18,000 per unit. In addition,

          ...

View document ▸ (term: surveillance_general, unreviewed)

  • [2024-02-14] Common Council -- Common Council Regular Meeting Minutes - 2024-02-14 (minutes)

    ...ld work to be completed, and is expected to include additional field mapping to determine pipe connectivity, investigation of dry weather flows within the drainage network and assisting the City with CCTV investigations; and

                                                87

    February 14, 2024

WHEREAS, Funding is available for this within the P... View document ▸ (term: surveillance_general, unreviewed)

undercover_tools

(no mentions)

vehicle_forensics

(no mentions)

video_analytics

(no mentions)

How this report was built

Everything below describes the corpus and its limits, rather than what was found in it.

Coverage status

  • Channels registered: 4
  • Active meeting bodies: 11
  • Videos registered: 871 (fetched: 299, no captions: 7)
  • Date range covered: 2017-01-11 to 2026-09-24 — based on the 754 of 871 videos that carry a parseable upload date; the other 117 are undated, so the real corpus may extend beyond this range in either direction

Channels

display_name channel_id handle
City of New Britain conbct @CONBCT
Consolidated School District of New Britain csdnb @consolidatedschooldistrict6597
Nutmeg TV nutmeg_tv
City of New Britain (Granicus) new_britain_granicus

Tab crawl history

channel_id tab last_crawled_at video_count
conbct streams 2026-09-27 14:31:23.146320 198
conbct videos 2026-09-27 14:31:18.991975 25
csdnb streams 2026-09-27 14:39:15.633147 155
csdnb videos 2026-09-27 14:39:12.917189 162
new_britain_granicus New Britain CT - Granicus Content 2026-09-06 11:48:18.144951 564
nutmeg_tv streams 2026-09-27 14:35:23.264189 3
nutmeg_tv videos 2026-09-27 14:35:22.454635 5318

Registered meeting bodies

body_name category active video_count
Administration, Finance and Law Committee budget_finance True 98
Board of Finance budget_finance True 0
Committee on Administration, Finance and Law budget_finance True 0
Standing Bonding Subcommittee budget_finance True 17
Common Council council True 446
Consolidated Subcommittee council True 41
Board of Education education True 108
Committee on Planning, Zoning and Housing land_use True 84
Zoning Subcommittee land_use True 39
Compensation Committee other True 19
Police Commission public_safety True 0

Zero videos registered for: Board of Finance, Committee on Administration, Finance and Law, Police Commission

Agenda/minutes coverage

  • Agenda sources registered: 1
  • Documents registered: 969 (fetched: 394)
  • Date range covered: 2016-09-06 to 2026-10-07

Agenda sources

source_id platform base_url status
new_britain_granicus granicus https://newbritain.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=1 confirmed

Research log

logged_at field_name new_value source by
2026-08-13 16:40:34.194018 boe_surveillance_note BOE Community Forum: district described school security cameras as directly "connected to the police department that track real life intruders," alongside badge access control. BOE transcript keyword scan + context review, 2026-08-13 claude
2026-08-13 14:22:06.907572 channel_found conbct (@CONBCT) for Common Council/general city government; csdnb (@consolidatedschooldistrict6597) SEPARATELY for Board of Education -- same split pattern as Bridgeport/Norwalk/Waterbury. Both confirmed real via yt-dlp. yt-dlp-confirmed handles claude
2026-08-13 14:22:06.907572 committees_confirmed Common Council + standing subcommittee "Administration, Finance and Law [and Public Services]" (title wording varies) confirmed via real title matches. Board of Finance and Police Commission confirmed real per newbritainct.gov but zero title matches in the crawl -- registered anyway per project convention. newbritainct.gov/gov/common-council/defaulthtm, yt-dlp --flat-playlist crawl of youtube.com/@CONBCT streams+videos, 2026-08-13 claude
2026-09-04 20:09:32.289957 no_police_commission Exactly one of 564 archived New Britain meetings carries a public-safety word in its title, and it is a Consolidated Subcommittee special meeting on a climate emergency. There is no police commission and no public safety committee in this archive. Police budget and procurement therefore run through the Committee on Administration, Finance and Law (~54 clips, ~62 h) and capital borrowing through the Standing Bonding Subcommittee (14 clips, 18 h) -- those are the bodies to read for surveillance spending in this city, not a dedicated oversight committee, because none exists. Keyword pass over all 564 clip titles, 2026-09-04 claude
2026-08-13 14:22:06.907572 scope_boundary_confirmed Planning, Zoning and Housing Committee / Zoning Subcommittee excluded as land-use (real, frequent matches). Compensation Committee and Standing Bonding Subcommittee excluded as personnel/municipal-debt bodies, not surveillance-tech oversight scope -- same precedent as Fire Commission in Milford, noted rather than silently dropped. yt-dlp --flat-playlist crawl of youtube.com/@CONBCT streams+videos, 2026-08-13 claude
2026-09-04 20:09:32.289957 second_platform_granicus New Britain publishes a Granicus archive of 564 meetings and ~860 hours, 2017-05-02 to 2026-08-26, alongside the YouTube channel this repo already follows. Single view. Only 105 distinct title forms -- the most concentrated archive of the four Granicus towns onboarded in this batch. Granicus view discovery + per-clip table parse, 2026-09-04 claude

Gaps and caveats

Videos with no captions available (7 shown, max 25)

title upload_date
Standing Bonding Subcommittee 2025-03-20
New Britain Board of Education Meeting (November 2, 2020) 2020-11-02
New Britain Board of Education Meeting (August 17, 2020) 2020-08-17
Common Council Public Hearing
Committee on Administration, Finance and Law and Public Services
Common Council Regular Meeting
Common Council Regular Meeting

Tabs never crawled

channel tab
City of New Britain (Granicus) videos
City of New Britain (Granicus) streams

Get the full transcripts

Download New Britain's meeting transcripts (.zip)

Every finding in this report is a keyword match against exactly these files. Download them to check a quote in its full context, or to search for something this report's keyword list does not cover.

What's inside: one plain-text .txt file per meeting, named <date>_<video-id>_<meeting-title>.txt, plus a MANIFEST.txt giving the date range and how much of the town's video archive is transcribed.

How to use it

unzip new-britain-meeting-transcripts.zip -d new-britain
cd new-britain

# every meeting that mentions a term, with the surrounding line
grep -rin "license plate" .

# just the meeting dates, from the filenames
grep -ril "flock" . | sort

The filename's leading date is the meeting date, so a hit tells you which meeting to watch. Find that meeting in the Timeline below for a direct, timestamped link to that moment in the video.

These are machine-generated captions, not certified minutes. Expect mis-heard names and technical terms, and quote the video rather than the transcript when accuracy matters.

Generated 2026-09-27T16:33:07 from New Britain's meeting transcripts and agenda documents. Home addresses spoken during public comment are redacted; see the archive MANIFEST for what that means.

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