Surveillance-tech report: North Branford¶
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: North Branford¶
76 mentions of surveillance technology in 54 North Branford meetings, 2017–2026
Not the full history: transcripts begin 2013-12-22, but North Branford's published video archive goes back to 2011-12-13. Meetings before 2013 are not yet transcribed, so this report cannot say what was discussed then. Older meetings are still being added.
This report collects every mention of surveillance technology found in North Branford'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¶
- Mentions by topic: first seen / most recent
- Timeline
- Findings by topic
- Agenda/minutes mentions (unreviewed -- live keyword scan, no human review queue yet)
- How this report was built
- Coverage status
- Registered meeting bodies
- Agenda/minutes coverage
- Research log
- Gaps and caveats
- Get the full transcripts
Mentions by topic: first seen / most recent¶
| Topic | Mentions | Meetings | First seen | Most recent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALPR / Flock | 4 | 4 | 2018-09-06 | 2026-02-17 |
| Body cameras | 8 | 6 | 2018-01-16 | 2026-04-14 |
| Drones | 57 | 41 | 2017-10-03 | 2026-09-23 |
| Facial recognition | 1 | 1 | 2019-10-01 | 2019-10-01 |
| Predictive policing | 2 | 2 | 2018-01-25 | 2018-02-01 |
| General surveillance | 4 | 4 | 2018-08-07 | 2023-06-20 |
Timeline¶
54 meetings surfaced a finding (54 dated, spanning 2017-10-03 to 2026-09-23; 0 of unknown date, listed last). Newest first.
Since 2026-08-28 (through 2026-09-27, when this report was generated):
2026-09-23 -- Conservation & Inland Wetlands & Watercourses Agency¶
North Branford Conservation & Inland Wetlands & Watercourses 9/23/26 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...any kind of um observation of the area either by drone or otherwise to make sure nothing is done until an application is submitted...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...know you can't see it with the naked eye from the street. >> But that's why I'm saying drone or aerial. >> Correct. So what would you propose that?...
Earlier meetings (53)
2026-04-14 -- Town Council
NB Town Council Budget Workshop 4/14/26 (topics: body_camera, drone)
body_cameraWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...on the police budget was the um Axon contract which is for taser um and body cam contract. Um and there's a $75,000 that contract was already voted on by...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...>> Okay. >> And just to make it clear on the the drone Harrison, the the the the granite curbing is in the bus way. It's not the whole place....
2026-04-14 -- Town Council
Town Council - Budget Workshop 04/14/2026 (topics: body_camera, drone)
body_cameraWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...on the police budget was the um Axon contract which is for taser um and body cam contract. Um and there's a $75,000 that contract was already voted on by...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...>> Okay. >> And just to make it clear on the the drone harrison, the the the the granite curbing is in the bus way. It's not the whole place....
2026-03-03 -- Town Council
NB Town Council Budget Workshop 3/3/26 (topics: body_camera)
body_cameraWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...who wasn't at he wasn't at the on the council after that meeting, but that was for the extra money for the axon body cam uh project. So, um, we believe we have funding sources for that that won't...
2026-02-17 -- Town Council
WPCA & Town Council Meeting 02/17/2026 (topics: alpr, body_camera)
body_cameraWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...Um, it's broken down. Most of these things that we have or we already have in our body cam program. It's just continuing that such as autotagging. anytime an officer goes there um to a...alpr_flockWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...The camera system, one of the reasons I was waiting on the LPRs, which is license plate reader in the in the incar camera system, is um there's a lot of talk and there's still a lot of talk up...
2026-02-17 -- Town Council
WPCA & Town Council Meeting 2/17/26 (topics: alpr, body_camera)
body_cameraWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...Um, it's broken down. Most of these things that we have or we already have in our body cam program. It's just continuing that such as autotagging. anytime an officer goes there um to a...alpr_flockWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...The camera system, one of the reasons I was waiting on the LPRs, which is license plate reader in the in the incar camera system, is um there's a lot of talk and there's still a lot of talk up...body_cameraWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...not just buying the equipment. It's also all of the all of >> Yeah. All these things are insured. Body cam goes down, we send it out, we got another one coming coming back to us...
2025-06-17 -- Town Council
WPCA & Town Council 6/17/2025 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...report that this legislation passed the Connecticut General Assembly. Uh it also allows for innovative drone use for farming and the bill is now on the governor's desk and awaiting his...
2025-04-10 -- Town Council
Town Council Budget Workshop 04/10/2025 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...whole location so we're not bringing in machinery twice over to impact. Yeah, I mean drone drone is going to it's that's a it's a the curbing there is going to be an issue. So that's...
2025-04-10 -- Town Council
Town Council Budget Workshop 04/10/2025 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...one whole location. So we're not bringing in machinery twice over and 10x. Yeah. I mean drone drone is going to is that's a that's a the curving there is going to be an issue. So that's...
2025-01-02 -- Planning & Zoning Commission
North Branford Planning and Zoning 1/2/2025 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...right is correct okay so they could be like in a drone or something so they're not on the ground they're like floating in the air all...
2025-01-02 -- Planning & Zoning Commission
Planning & Zoning 01/02/2025 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...the right is correct okay so they could be like on a drone or something so they're not on the ground they're like floating in the air all...
2024-11-21 -- Board of Education
Board of Education 11/21/2024 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...and as you see in the some de briefs the TVs staff and drone staff we spent the entire day on Monday collaborating with one another we started with that drone we did a ghost...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...drone staff we spent the entire day on Monday collaborating with one another we started with that drone we did a ghost walk of Jerome we developed uh vertical teams so teachers from 3K through fifth...
2024-03-19 -- Town Council
Town Council 03/19/2024 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...fantastic fire and emergency folks uh went through another other Litany of things when bylaws drone policy and some budget updates talked about the new ambulance update and getting things in...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...team that's it and and again we ran a free clinic last week for girls um just as a drone Harrison gy because we had four girls for the third fourth grade team and not one single third grader and...
2024-03-19 -- Town Council
Town Council- 3/19/2024 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...our are fantastic fire and emergency folks uh went through another other Litany of things when bylaws drone policy and some budget updates talked about the new ambulance update and...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...have for the team that's it and and again we ran a free clinic last week for girls um just as a drone Harrison gy because we had four girls for the third fourth grade team and not one single...
2024-01-24 -- Conservation & Inland Wetlands & Watercourses Agency
Inland Wetlands Agency- 01/24/2024 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...there to eat them Potato Festival we can have a new salad so here is um a drone photo done by the regional Water Authority relatively...
2023-12-19 -- Town Council
Town Council 12/19/2023 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...it from my desk um yeah and please note that um this is aerial imagery it's not live stream from a drone or from a satellite so it's just a picture in time is is what it is and um I made a few...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...was a little bit different of an understanding when we were talking about it I thought this was going to be drone Le or something that was consistent not every six months...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...have to get it through some type of some some type of a drone I'm not sure I think software provides for these different angles I think it's just technology sure every...
2023-12-19 -- Town Council
Town Council- 12/19/2023 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...do it from my desk um you and please note that um this is aerial Imager it's not live streamed from a drone or from a satellite so it's just a picture in time is is what it is and um I made a few...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...was a little bit different of an understanding when we were talking about it I thought this was going to be drone Le or something that was consistent not every six months which is a little bit...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...different altitude in order to gain that so you'd have to get it through some type of some some type of a drone um I'm not sure I think the software provides for these different angles I think just...
2023-09-19 -- Town Council
Town Council 09/19/2023 (topics: alpr)
alpr_flockWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...cars and what they really want to do is find one that will also the camera that would also have a license plate reader so that they're working on that um and then the generator was the other...
2023-06-20 -- Town Council
Town Council 06/20/2023 (topics: surveillance_general)
surveillance_generalWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...um vendors like the next gen crown castle fiber security infrastructure such as CCTV and card key access they were specific items that were on the list that they submitted to us but they...
2023-06-15 -- Board of Education
Board of Education Meeting 06/15/2023 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...no we uh the the tech classes the TV production class went out and did a site visit we're gonna fly the Drone and video the whole process and then have kids involved hoping some of the...
2023-06-06 -- Town Council
Town Council 6/6/2023 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...so getting into the properties this is taken we did a site visit April 26th and we have drone capability so we brought a drone out take some you know some aerial photos of it to kind of give us an idea...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...taken we did a site visit April 26th and we have drone capability so we brought a drone out take some you know some aerial photos of it to kind of give us an idea of you know what exactly we're dealing...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...photos of it to kind of give us an idea of you know what exactly we're dealing with and the gis on this the Drone software we have is able to to pull out this...
2023-01-31 -- Town Council
Town Council - 01/31/2023 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...um it'll assess the trajectory of where the town's going the soccer goals field hockey drone this ice hockey problem and maybe um badminton is declining so let's take...
2023-01-03 -- Town Council
Town Council Meeting 01/03/2023 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...um and yes most of it would be going on the board of edsides because you have drone the high school and the middle school and the auditorium yeah right so those would be you know yeah I was just...
2022-12-13 -- Board of Education
Board of Education - 12/13/2022 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...and give tours and have some music and some food and really photographer photographer drone we'll do it right so I like that no date yet just until we know here but that is the plan...
2022-05-03 -- Town Council
Town Council - 05/03/2022 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...talking about the ambulance right that was looked at and it was not feasible yeah we haven't heard we put a drone up there we went out there we put a drone up to the height and we also had the...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...was looked at and it was not feasible yeah we haven't heard we put a drone up there we went out there we put a drone up to the height and we also had the consultant look at it and it wasn't...
2022-04-19 -- Town Council
Town Council - 04/19/2022 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...um and he would he was um good with that and to do the drone yeah that's the one that needs more than most of you...
2022-01-18 -- Town Council
Town Council - 01/18/2022 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...were able to save a fair part of fair amount of the home uh it's just that that was taken with our drone and that that's where that is so if they're um...
2021-12-07 -- Town Council
Town Council 12-07-2021 (topics: surveillance_general)
surveillance_generalWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...uh 20 of the lines the sewage lines throughout town every year they cctv inspect 10 of the lines every year they make recommendations for improvements um i work with their...
2021-04-06 -- Town Council
WPCA & Town Council Meeting - 04/06/2021 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...roof itself and that's why i suggested a couple of things out here two reasons to to do a drone uh file where they're able to give us such accurate...
2021-03-18 -- Board of Education
Board of Education Meeting - 03/18/2021 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...and have it really be a learning project for the next two years that'd be really cool and uh we'll use the drone and we'll have the ability to use our tech kids with uh totally tv it should...
2021-01-28 -- Board of Education
North Branford Board of Education Meeting - 01/28/2021 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...this year has been fantastic i think we're starting to hear many other states uh pounding the drone we have to get these kids back to school we have to get these kids back to school...
2020-10-06 -- Town Council
North Branford Town Council Meeting - 10/06/2020 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...i've had a professional pilot go up and put the put his drone up exactly where the cell tower would be and we can see it from all around the site i am i'm not...
2020-10-01 -- Planning & Zoning Commission
North Branford Planning & Zoning Meeting - 10/01/2020 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...and then a little closer this is from the main entrance road but the visitors well the visitors won't see the drone type of shot but it gives you a sense of again the...
2020-08-20 -- Board of Education
North Branford Board of Education Meeting - 08/20/2020 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...like we we're going to be accessing and i don't want anyone to panic we're going to use a drone uh and we're going to we're going to hover over drop offs at every building...
2020-07-20 -- Board of Education
North Branford Board of Education Meeting - 07/16/020 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...so i think the suggestion was to bring like the class in before school started like more drone kids more so than the others what's one of...
2020-06-04 -- Board of Fire Commissioners
North Branford Fire Commission Meeting - 06/04/2020 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...also gives the captain of company three the management of the department's unmanned aircraft systems or drone program that will be housed on rescue three so it further identifies different...
2020-02-18 -- Town Council
North Branford Town Council Meeting - 02/18/2020 (topics: surveillance_general)
surveillance_generalWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...1970s vintage 1970s radio equipment in here and this area over here houses our CCTV as well as our servers that handle our cat RMS or computer-aided dispatch records management system if you look up...
2020-01-16 -- Planning & Zoning Commission
North Branford Planning & Zoning Meeting - 01/16/2020 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...science before we are conducting I shall not exceed one third of the floor ear the drone unit or four hundred square feet would whichever's less so I'm gonna make an...
2019-11-19 -- Town Council
North Branford Town Council Meeting - 11/19/2019 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...with with the veterans all four schools do something I particularly like I going to drone harrassing and get a quick breakfast then go to high school and what we do there is that one or two...
2019-10-01 -- Town Council
North Branford Town Council Meeting - 10/01/2019 (topics: facial_recognition)
facial_recognitionWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...expenditures or we're looking at is more of a cloud-based subscription type service with a facial recognition for his time clock so there's a couple examples and again going back today with...
2019-06-18 -- Town Council
North Branford Town Council Meeting - 06/18/2019 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...every single officer participated in that he reviewed the purchase orders with a drone the rifles in the truck they constantly Commission approved a memorandum agreement about carry over a...
2019-05-21 -- Town Council
North Branford Town Council Meeting - 05/21/2019 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...happen in most towns they have the Commission to approve the purchase of a drone I think having a drone according to the Commission would allow the police officers not to have to chase ATVs not...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...officers not to have to chase ATVs not to have problems with accidents chase dirt bikes by having a drone they'll be able to find where an ATV or a dirt bike is quickly and an officer can throw out...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...serious situation if that's not correct the next item I mentioned before is a drone the drone was approved by the Commission at a cost not to exceed six thousand dollars the third item is a...
2019-03-27 -- Conservation & Inland Wetlands & Watercourses Agency
North Branford Inland Wetlands Commission Meeting - 03/27/2019 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...contains 41 thousand six hundred and nineteen square feet it yes unboxing drone run back from Fox and Road the wetlands that were delineating through the profit property run along...
2019-03-12 -- Town Council
Town Council Budget Meeting - 03/12/2019 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...Fire Department that has stopped the bleed equipment we have purchased a drone we have trained 13 members of the department North Branford police department and North Haven Police...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...department North Branford police department and North Haven Police Department has drone operators in accordance with FAA regulations that is active right now the next page talks...
2018-09-06 -- Planning & Zoning Commission
North Branford Planning & Zoning Meeting - 09/06/2018 (topics: alpr)
alpr_flockWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...roll through you know you're building a project you're always a little bit in flock ship people in the contract but generally speaking it's on a rolling basis as opposed to hoping you're gonna...
2018-08-07 -- Town Council
North Branford Town Council Meeting - 08/07/2018 (topics: surveillance_general)
surveillance_generalWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...year the escalation they added a two and a half percent for the base fee and a CCTV inspections the maintenance of repair that's that's a carries number if something breaks they just walk...
2018-03-22 -- Board of Education
North Branford Board of Education Meeting - 03/22/2018 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...that they do and there's always people here on hand speakers as well as the FRC our drone program and fries then we have an open house on February 28th that allowed the parents to come in and see...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...scription of the other two programs and you have slideshow for the drone we have the rate however accountability is very interesting as well...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...French currently we have over 17 applications for the drone preschool and our 25 drivers say that in both cases that's more than with these things we have so...
2018-02-01 -- Planning & Zoning Commission
North Branford Planning and Zoning Meeting - 02/01/2018 (topics: predictive_policing)
predictive_policingWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...leave out agricultural festivals cuz just seem to be hung up on that take that out a foundry can't they make conducts special agricultural events such as farm such as...
2018-01-25 -- Board of Education
North Branford Board of Education Budget Meeting - 01/25/2018 (topics: predictive_policing)
predictive_policingWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...you probably know which areas won't be is much renovation as others and there may be Gotham's it could be renovator left intact that's when the rest of it is renovated and I throw the number of a...
2018-01-18 -- Planning & Zoning Commission
North Branford Planning and Zoning Meeting - 01/18/2018 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...you're trying to help them out yeah it's a lot of you know controlling and you know working with a drone I understand what these apartment the public to hear that there is we are trying to provide...
2018-01-16 -- Town Council
North Branford Town Council Meeting - 01/16/2018 (topics: body_camera)
body_cameraWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...a standard in police work every agency around us has some type of camera system the only one that's not using a body cam right now is Guilford but they have in-car with a mic setup we're actually...body_cameraWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...that individual if it wasn't this is strictly from the chief's mouth if it wasn't for their body cam footage with the witness statements they had on scene they would have four officers federally...
2017-10-25 -- Town Council
North Branford Town Council Public Hearing - 10/25/2017 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...the parcel that runs all the way out to notch Hill and again this is aerial footage from a drone also gives some very very nice shots of our of our town as well so I just wanted to to handle...
2017-10-19 -- Board of Education
North Branford Board of Education Meeting - 10/19/2017 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...that's romantic artists family and it truly is going to be a family event it will be tedious and drone harrison staff in the middle school in facebook that connection football team so it will be...
2017-10-03 -- Town Council
North Branford Town Council Meeting - 10/03/2017 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...tell you they also Steve Torino has come forward to offer his services in flying the drone to get a visual 360 of the property we can run on a loop on a computer or on a flash drive and...
Findings by topic¶
ai_data_fusion¶
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alpr¶
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[2026-02-17] Town Council -- WPCA & Town Council Meeting 02/17/2026
...The camera system, one of the reasons I was waiting on the LPRs, which is license plate reader in the in the incar camera system, is um there's a lot of talk and there's still a lot of talk up... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
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[2026-02-17] Town Council -- WPCA & Town Council Meeting 2/17/26
...The camera system, one of the reasons I was waiting on the LPRs, which is license plate reader in the in the incar camera system, is um there's a lot of talk and there's still a lot of talk up... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
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[2023-09-19] Town Council -- Town Council 09/19/2023
...cars and what they really want to do is find one that will also the camera that would also have a license plate reader so that they're working on that um and then the generator was the other... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
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[2018-09-06] Planning & Zoning Commission -- North Branford Planning & Zoning Meeting - 09/06/2018
...roll through you know you're building a project you're always a little bit in flock ship people in the contract but generally speaking it's on a rolling basis as opposed to hoping you're gonna... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
biometrics_other¶
(no findings)
body_camera¶
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[2026-04-14] Town Council -- Town Council - Budget Workshop 04/14/2026
...on the police budget was the um Axon contract which is for taser um and body cam contract. Um and there's a $75,000 that contract was already voted on by... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: body_camera, unreviewed)
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[2026-04-14] Town Council -- NB Town Council Budget Workshop 4/14/26
...on the police budget was the um Axon contract which is for taser um and body cam contract. Um and there's a $75,000 that contract was already voted on by... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: body_camera, unreviewed)
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[2026-03-03] Town Council -- NB Town Council Budget Workshop 3/3/26
...who wasn't at he wasn't at the on the council after that meeting, but that was for the extra money for the axon body cam uh project. So, um, we believe we have funding sources for that that won't... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: body_camera, unreviewed)
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[2026-02-17] Town Council -- WPCA & Town Council Meeting 02/17/2026
...Um, it's broken down. Most of these things that we have or we already have in our body cam program. It's just continuing that such as autotagging. anytime an officer goes there um to a... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: body_camera, unreviewed)
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[2026-02-17] Town Council -- WPCA & Town Council Meeting 2/17/26
...not just buying the equipment. It's also all of the all of >> Yeah. All these things are insured. Body cam goes down, we send it out, we got another one coming coming back to us... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: body_camera, unreviewed)
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[2026-02-17] Town Council -- WPCA & Town Council Meeting 2/17/26
...Um, it's broken down. Most of these things that we have or we already have in our body cam program. It's just continuing that such as autotagging. anytime an officer goes there um to a... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: body_camera, unreviewed)
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[2018-01-16] Town Council -- North Branford Town Council Meeting - 01/16/2018
...a standard in police work every agency around us has some type of camera system the only one that's not using a body cam right now is Guilford but they have in-car with a mic setup we're actually... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: body_camera, unreviewed)
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[2018-01-16] Town Council -- North Branford Town Council Meeting - 01/16/2018
...that individual if it wasn't this is strictly from the chief's mouth if it wasn't for their body cam footage with the witness statements they had on scene they would have four officers federally... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: body_camera, unreviewed)
cad¶
(no findings)
cell_site_sim¶
(no findings)
data_broker¶
(no findings)
doorbell_partnership¶
(no findings)
drone¶
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[2026-09-23] Conservation & Inland Wetlands & Watercourses Agency -- North Branford Conservation & Inland Wetlands & Watercourses 9/23/26
...know you can't see it with the naked eye from the street. >> But that's why I'm saying drone or aerial. >> Correct. So what would you propose that?... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2026-09-23] Conservation & Inland Wetlands & Watercourses Agency -- North Branford Conservation & Inland Wetlands & Watercourses 9/23/26
...any kind of um observation of the area either by drone or otherwise to make sure nothing is done until an application is submitted... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2026-04-14] Town Council -- Town Council - Budget Workshop 04/14/2026
...>> Okay. >> And just to make it clear on the the drone harrison, the the the the granite curbing is in the bus way. It's not the whole place.... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2026-04-14] Town Council -- NB Town Council Budget Workshop 4/14/26
...>> Okay. >> And just to make it clear on the the drone Harrison, the the the the granite curbing is in the bus way. It's not the whole place.... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2025-06-17] Town Council -- WPCA & Town Council 6/17/2025
...report that this legislation passed the Connecticut General Assembly. Uh it also allows for innovative drone use for farming and the bill is now on the governor's desk and awaiting his... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2025-04-10] Town Council -- Town Council Budget Workshop 04/10/2025
...whole location so we're not bringing in machinery twice over to impact. Yeah, I mean drone drone is going to it's that's a it's a the curbing there is going to be an issue. So that's... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2025-04-10] Town Council -- Town Council Budget Workshop 04/10/2025
...one whole location. So we're not bringing in machinery twice over and 10x. Yeah. I mean drone drone is going to is that's a that's a the curving there is going to be an issue. So that's... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2025-01-02] Planning & Zoning Commission -- North Branford Planning and Zoning 1/2/2025
...right is correct okay so they could be like in a drone or something so they're not on the ground they're like floating in the air all... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2025-01-02] Planning & Zoning Commission -- Planning & Zoning 01/02/2025
...the right is correct okay so they could be like on a drone or something so they're not on the ground they're like floating in the air all... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2024-11-21] Board of Education -- Board of Education 11/21/2024
...and as you see in the some de briefs the TVs staff and drone staff we spent the entire day on Monday collaborating with one another we started with that drone we did a ghost... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2024-11-21] Board of Education -- Board of Education 11/21/2024
...drone staff we spent the entire day on Monday collaborating with one another we started with that drone we did a ghost walk of Jerome we developed uh vertical teams so teachers from 3K through fifth... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2024-03-19] Town Council -- Town Council 03/19/2024
...team that's it and and again we ran a free clinic last week for girls um just as a drone Harrison gy because we had four girls for the third fourth grade team and not one single third grader and... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2024-03-19] Town Council -- Town Council- 3/19/2024
...our are fantastic fire and emergency folks uh went through another other Litany of things when bylaws drone policy and some budget updates talked about the new ambulance update and... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2024-03-19] Town Council -- Town Council 03/19/2024
...fantastic fire and emergency folks uh went through another other Litany of things when bylaws drone policy and some budget updates talked about the new ambulance update and getting things in... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2024-03-19] Town Council -- Town Council- 3/19/2024
...have for the team that's it and and again we ran a free clinic last week for girls um just as a drone Harrison gy because we had four girls for the third fourth grade team and not one single... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2024-01-24] Conservation & Inland Wetlands & Watercourses Agency -- Inland Wetlands Agency- 01/24/2024
...there to eat them Potato Festival we can have a new salad so here is um a drone photo done by the regional Water Authority relatively... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2023-12-19] Town Council -- Town Council 12/19/2023
...was a little bit different of an understanding when we were talking about it I thought this was going to be drone Le or something that was consistent not every six months... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2023-12-19] Town Council -- Town Council- 12/19/2023
...do it from my desk um you and please note that um this is aerial Imager it's not live streamed from a drone or from a satellite so it's just a picture in time is is what it is and um I made a few... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2023-12-19] Town Council -- Town Council- 12/19/2023
...was a little bit different of an understanding when we were talking about it I thought this was going to be drone Le or something that was consistent not every six months which is a little bit... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2023-12-19] Town Council -- Town Council 12/19/2023
...it from my desk um yeah and please note that um this is aerial imagery it's not live stream from a drone or from a satellite so it's just a picture in time is is what it is and um I made a few... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2023-12-19] Town Council -- Town Council 12/19/2023
...have to get it through some type of some some type of a drone I'm not sure I think software provides for these different angles I think it's just technology sure every... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2023-12-19] Town Council -- Town Council- 12/19/2023
...different altitude in order to gain that so you'd have to get it through some type of some some type of a drone um I'm not sure I think the software provides for these different angles I think just... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2023-06-15] Board of Education -- Board of Education Meeting 06/15/2023
...no we uh the the tech classes the TV production class went out and did a site visit we're gonna fly the Drone and video the whole process and then have kids involved hoping some of the... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2023-06-06] Town Council -- Town Council 6/6/2023
...photos of it to kind of give us an idea of you know what exactly we're dealing with and the gis on this the Drone software we have is able to to pull out this... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2023-06-06] Town Council -- Town Council 6/6/2023
...taken we did a site visit April 26th and we have drone capability so we brought a drone out take some you know some aerial photos of it to kind of give us an idea of you know what exactly we're dealing... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2023-06-06] Town Council -- Town Council 6/6/2023
...so getting into the properties this is taken we did a site visit April 26th and we have drone capability so we brought a drone out take some you know some aerial photos of it to kind of give us an idea... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2023-01-31] Town Council -- Town Council - 01/31/2023
...um it'll assess the trajectory of where the town's going the soccer goals field hockey drone this ice hockey problem and maybe um badminton is declining so let's take... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2023-01-03] Town Council -- Town Council Meeting 01/03/2023
...um and yes most of it would be going on the board of edsides because you have drone the high school and the middle school and the auditorium yeah right so those would be you know yeah I was just... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2022-12-13] Board of Education -- Board of Education - 12/13/2022
...and give tours and have some music and some food and really photographer photographer drone we'll do it right so I like that no date yet just until we know here but that is the plan... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2022-05-03] Town Council -- Town Council - 05/03/2022
...was looked at and it was not feasible yeah we haven't heard we put a drone up there we went out there we put a drone up to the height and we also had the consultant look at it and it wasn't... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2022-05-03] Town Council -- Town Council - 05/03/2022
...talking about the ambulance right that was looked at and it was not feasible yeah we haven't heard we put a drone up there we went out there we put a drone up to the height and we also had the... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2022-04-19] Town Council -- Town Council - 04/19/2022
...um and he would he was um good with that and to do the drone yeah that's the one that needs more than most of you... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2022-01-18] Town Council -- Town Council - 01/18/2022
...were able to save a fair part of fair amount of the home uh it's just that that was taken with our drone and that that's where that is so if they're um... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2021-04-06] Town Council -- WPCA & Town Council Meeting - 04/06/2021
...roof itself and that's why i suggested a couple of things out here two reasons to to do a drone uh file where they're able to give us such accurate... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2021-03-18] Board of Education -- Board of Education Meeting - 03/18/2021
...and have it really be a learning project for the next two years that'd be really cool and uh we'll use the drone and we'll have the ability to use our tech kids with uh totally tv it should... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2021-01-28] Board of Education -- North Branford Board of Education Meeting - 01/28/2021
...this year has been fantastic i think we're starting to hear many other states uh pounding the drone we have to get these kids back to school we have to get these kids back to school... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2020-10-06] Town Council -- North Branford Town Council Meeting - 10/06/2020
...i've had a professional pilot go up and put the put his drone up exactly where the cell tower would be and we can see it from all around the site i am i'm not... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2020-10-01] Planning & Zoning Commission -- North Branford Planning & Zoning Meeting - 10/01/2020
...and then a little closer this is from the main entrance road but the visitors well the visitors won't see the drone type of shot but it gives you a sense of again the... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2020-08-20] Board of Education -- North Branford Board of Education Meeting - 08/20/2020
...like we we're going to be accessing and i don't want anyone to panic we're going to use a drone uh and we're going to we're going to hover over drop offs at every building... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2020-07-20] Board of Education -- North Branford Board of Education Meeting - 07/16/020
...so i think the suggestion was to bring like the class in before school started like more drone kids more so than the others what's one of... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2020-06-04] Board of Fire Commissioners -- North Branford Fire Commission Meeting - 06/04/2020
...also gives the captain of company three the management of the department's unmanned aircraft systems or drone program that will be housed on rescue three so it further identifies different... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2020-01-16] Planning & Zoning Commission -- North Branford Planning & Zoning Meeting - 01/16/2020
...science before we are conducting I shall not exceed one third of the floor ear the drone unit or four hundred square feet would whichever's less so I'm gonna make an... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2019-11-19] Town Council -- North Branford Town Council Meeting - 11/19/2019
...with with the veterans all four schools do something I particularly like I going to drone harrassing and get a quick breakfast then go to high school and what we do there is that one or two... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2019-06-18] Town Council -- North Branford Town Council Meeting - 06/18/2019
...every single officer participated in that he reviewed the purchase orders with a drone the rifles in the truck they constantly Commission approved a memorandum agreement about carry over a... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2019-05-21] Town Council -- North Branford Town Council Meeting - 05/21/2019
...serious situation if that's not correct the next item I mentioned before is a drone the drone was approved by the Commission at a cost not to exceed six thousand dollars the third item is a... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2019-05-21] Town Council -- North Branford Town Council Meeting - 05/21/2019
...happen in most towns they have the Commission to approve the purchase of a drone I think having a drone according to the Commission would allow the police officers not to have to chase ATVs not... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2019-05-21] Town Council -- North Branford Town Council Meeting - 05/21/2019
...officers not to have to chase ATVs not to have problems with accidents chase dirt bikes by having a drone they'll be able to find where an ATV or a dirt bike is quickly and an officer can throw out... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2019-03-27] Conservation & Inland Wetlands & Watercourses Agency -- North Branford Inland Wetlands Commission Meeting - 03/27/2019
...contains 41 thousand six hundred and nineteen square feet it yes unboxing drone run back from Fox and Road the wetlands that were delineating through the profit property run along... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2019-03-12] Town Council -- Town Council Budget Meeting - 03/12/2019
...department North Branford police department and North Haven Police Department has drone operators in accordance with FAA regulations that is active right now the next page talks... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2019-03-12] Town Council -- Town Council Budget Meeting - 03/12/2019
...Fire Department that has stopped the bleed equipment we have purchased a drone we have trained 13 members of the department North Branford police department and North Haven Police... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2018-03-22] Board of Education -- North Branford Board of Education Meeting - 03/22/2018
...that they do and there's always people here on hand speakers as well as the FRC our drone program and fries then we have an open house on February 28th that allowed the parents to come in and see... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2018-03-22] Board of Education -- North Branford Board of Education Meeting - 03/22/2018
...scription of the other two programs and you have slideshow for the drone we have the rate however accountability is very interesting as well... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2018-03-22] Board of Education -- North Branford Board of Education Meeting - 03/22/2018
...French currently we have over 17 applications for the drone preschool and our 25 drivers say that in both cases that's more than with these things we have so... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2018-01-18] Planning & Zoning Commission -- North Branford Planning and Zoning Meeting - 01/18/2018
...you're trying to help them out yeah it's a lot of you know controlling and you know working with a drone I understand what these apartment the public to hear that there is we are trying to provide... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2017-10-25] Town Council -- North Branford Town Council Public Hearing - 10/25/2017
...the parcel that runs all the way out to notch Hill and again this is aerial footage from a drone also gives some very very nice shots of our of our town as well so I just wanted to to handle... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2017-10-19] Board of Education -- North Branford Board of Education Meeting - 10/19/2017
...that's romantic artists family and it truly is going to be a family event it will be tedious and drone harrison staff in the middle school in facebook that connection football team so it will be... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2017-10-03] Town Council -- North Branford Town Council Meeting - 10/03/2017
...tell you they also Steve Torino has come forward to offer his services in flying the drone to get a visual 360 of the property we can run on a loop on a computer or on a flash drive and... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
facial_recognition¶
- [2019-10-01] Town Council -- North Branford Town Council Meeting - 10/01/2019
...expenditures or we're looking at is more of a cloud-based subscription type service with a facial recognition for his time clock so there's a couple examples and again going back today with... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: facial_recognition, unreviewed)
gunshot_detection¶
(no findings)
mobile_forensics¶
(no findings)
osint_social_monitor¶
(no findings)
predictive_policing¶
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[2018-02-01] Planning & Zoning Commission -- North Branford Planning and Zoning Meeting - 02/01/2018
...leave out agricultural festivals cuz just seem to be hung up on that take that out a foundry can't they make conducts special agricultural events such as farm such as... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: predictive_policing, unreviewed)
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[2018-01-25] Board of Education -- North Branford Board of Education Budget Meeting - 01/25/2018
...you probably know which areas won't be is much renovation as others and there may be Gotham's it could be renovator left intact that's when the rest of it is renovated and I throw the number of a... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: predictive_policing, unreviewed)
purchasing_broker¶
(no findings)
rtcc¶
(no findings)
surveillance_general¶
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[2023-06-20] Town Council -- Town Council 06/20/2023
...um vendors like the next gen crown castle fiber security infrastructure such as CCTV and card key access they were specific items that were on the list that they submitted to us but they... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: surveillance_general, unreviewed)
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[2021-12-07] Town Council -- Town Council 12-07-2021
...uh 20 of the lines the sewage lines throughout town every year they cctv inspect 10 of the lines every year they make recommendations for improvements um i work with their... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: surveillance_general, unreviewed)
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[2020-02-18] Town Council -- North Branford Town Council Meeting - 02/18/2020
...1970s vintage 1970s radio equipment in here and this area over here houses our CCTV as well as our servers that handle our cat RMS or computer-aided dispatch records management system if you look up... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: surveillance_general, unreviewed)
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[2018-08-07] Town Council -- North Branford Town Council Meeting - 08/07/2018
...year the escalation they added a two and a half percent for the base fee and a CCTV inspections the maintenance of repair that's that's a carries number if something breaks they just walk... 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¶
- [2026-02-17] Town Council -- Town Council Meetings Minutes - 2026-02-17 (minutes)
...change as fast as the body cams do. But every 5 years we would get brand new products to our officers included in this price. The camera system, one of the reasons I was waiting on the LPRs, which is license plate reader in the in-car camera system, is there's a lot of talk up at the at the State of Connecticut about LPRs getting contracts signed. He met with representative Candelora, and commissi... View document ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
biometrics_other¶
(no mentions)
body_camera¶
(no mentions)
cad¶
(no mentions)
cell_site_sim¶
(no mentions)
data_broker¶
(no mentions)
doorbell_partnership¶
(no mentions)
drone¶
(no mentions)
facial_recognition¶
(no mentions)
gunshot_detection¶
(no mentions)
mobile_forensics¶
(no mentions)
osint_social_monitor¶
(no mentions)
predictive_policing¶
(no mentions)
purchasing_broker¶
(no mentions)
rtcc¶
(no mentions)
surveillance_general¶
- [2026-04-21] Town Council -- Town Council Meetings Minutes - 2026-04-21 (minutes)
...ter opportunity to evaluate the I&I impact these areas are having. As rain events occur and data is evaluated, the Veolia team will review the data with you and provide a plan of further action i.e.: CCTV, dye testing, or move the Smart Cover to a different location. Unlike traditional flow studies where the flow measuring device remains in one location for the duration of the project, Smart Cover... 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: 1
- Active meeting bodies: 10
- Videos registered: 870 (fetched: 676, no captions: 22)
- Date range covered: 2011-12-13 to 2026-09-27 (all 870 videos dated)
Channels¶
| display_name | channel_id | handle |
|---|---|---|
| TotoketTV (North Branford) | totoket_tv | @TotoketTV |
Tab crawl history¶
| channel_id | tab | last_crawled_at | video_count |
|---|---|---|---|
| totoket_tv | streams | 2026-09-27 14:19:33.234449 | 132 |
| totoket_tv | videos | 2026-09-27 14:19:30.595076 | 973 |
Registered meeting bodies¶
| body_name | category | active | video_count |
|---|---|---|---|
| Town Council | council | True | 360 |
| Board of Education | education | True | 171 |
| Conservation & Inland Wetlands & Watercourses Agency | other | True | 83 |
| Parks & Recreation Commission | other | True | 2 |
| Planning & Zoning Commission | other | True | 248 |
| Water Pollution Control Authority | other | True | 1 |
| Zoning Board of Appeals | other | True | 3 |
| Board of Fire Commissioners | public_safety | True | 2 |
| Board of Police Commissioners | public_safety | True | 0 |
| Public Safety Communications Committee | public_safety | True | 0 |
Zero videos registered for: Board of Police Commissioners, Public Safety Communications Committee
Agenda/minutes coverage¶
- Agenda sources registered: 1
- Documents registered: 206 (fetched: 172)
- Date range covered: 2023-05-23 to 2026-10-15
Agenda sources¶
| source_id | platform | base_url | status |
|---|---|---|---|
| north_branford_agendacenter | agendacenter | https://www.townofnorthbranfordct.com/agendacenter | confirmed |
Research log¶
| logged_at | field_name | new_value | source | by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-27 15:11:35.983702 | agenda_platform_confirmed | CivicPlus AgendaCenter confirmed at townofnorthbranfordct.com/agendacenter (CivicPlus branding in page source, standard AgendaCenter category/h2 structure). Fetchable by the agenda fetcher. Categories include Town Council, Board of Education, Planning & Zoning Commission, Board of Police Commissioners, Board of Fire Commissioners, WPCA, ZBA, CIWWA, Agriculture Commission, Blueprint Committee, Library Board, Parks & Recreation, Pension Committee, PPBC, Public Safety Communications Committee, Veterans Service Commission and more. | curl of townofnorthbranfordct.com/agendacenter, 2026-08-27 | claude |
| 2026-08-27 15:11:35.983702 | both_tabs_checked | /videos 967 titles, /streams 127 titles (1,094 combined). | yt-dlp --flat-playlist crawl of both tabs, 2026-08-27 | claude |
| 2026-08-27 15:11:35.983702 | channel_found | "TotoketTV" (UCt0X0TKFYvgaULBxHksRmag, @TotoketTV) confirmed via direct yt-dlp probe as North Branford's community-access channel -- "Totoket" is the town's own historical name, and the corpus is overwhelmingly North Branford government meetings. | yt-dlp channel probe + --flat-playlist crawl of both tabs (WebSearch budget exhausted, ytsearch: fallback), 2026-08-27 | claude |
| 2026-08-27 15:11:35.983702 | collision_check_branford | COLLISION RISK CHECKED: Branford CT is a separate, not-yet-onboarded town. Full CT-town-name scan of the 1,094-title corpus: 553 titles contain "Branford", 551 of them as "North Branford". The other two are "Branford Historical Society Dinner at Woodwinds" and an interview with the Branford Community Dining Room director -- community programming, not Branford government meetings. TotoketTV is North Branford's own channel, not a shared regional one; patterns deliberately left unanchored because roughly half the real meeting titles are bare "Town Council Meeting"/"Planning & Zoning". ACTION FOR A FUTURE BATCH: do not link Branford to totoket_tv without first anchoring every North Branford pattern (Deep River cross-channel leak lesson). | Python CT-town-name scan of the full combined corpus + manual review of the 2 non-"North Branford" hits, 2026-08-27 | claude |
| 2026-08-27 15:15:17.714994 | dry_run_sanity_check | totoket_tv: /videos 967 listed / 741 matched, /streams 127 listed / 120 matched. Combined 861/1094 (78.7%). | the transcript fetcher --tabs videos,streams --mode filtered --dry-run against the live DB after seeding, 2026-08-27 | claude |
| 2026-08-27 15:11:35.983702 | false_lead_rejected | townofnorthbranfordct.com's homepage links YouTube channel @MichaelDownes-NB (UC4AQ4xsQg53JFHCawj9vBog). yt-dlp confirms the channel is real but it has exactly ONE video and no /streams tab -- not a meeting archive. Same "the town's own .gov-listed channel is not the real source" gotcha as Windsor in a prior batch. | curl of townofnorthbranfordct.com + yt-dlp probe and crawl of both tabs, 2026-08-27 | claude |
| 2026-08-27 15:15:17.714994 | patterns_validated_from_real_titles | 861/1094 combined-tab titles matched (78.7%) across 10 registered bodies. Unmatched is community programming ("Community Lens", "Community Works", "Pete Mezzetti Show"), parades and festivals -- correct non-matches rather than a pattern gap. | Python pattern validation against the full combined corpus, 2026-08-27 | claude |
| 2026-08-27 15:11:35.983702 | title_vocabulary_from_crawl | Unfiltered crawl surfaced abbreviations and joint-meeting forms the AgendaCenter category list alone would have missed: "NB Town Council", "NB Planning and Zoning", the recurring joint "WPCA & Town Council" meeting, "PPBC" (Permanent Project Building Committee) and "CIWWA" (Conservation & Inland Wetlands & Watercourses Agency). | Unfiltered yt-dlp crawl of both tabs + Python frequency analysis, 2026-08-27 | claude |
| 2026-08-27 15:11:35.983702 | zero_coverage_bodies_registered | Board of Police Commissioners and Public Safety Communications Committee are both confirmed real (each has its own CivicPlus AgendaCenter category) but have ZERO title matches in the 1,094-title crawl. Registered anyway so the zero-coverage state is visible -- these are exactly the bodies this project most wants coverage of. They will appear in the data-quality check's zero-match CRITICAL list by design. | townofnorthbranfordct.com/agendacenter category list + Python pattern validation, 2026-08-27 | claude |
Gaps and caveats¶
Videos with no captions available (22 shown, max 25)¶
| title | upload_date |
|---|---|
| North Branford Conservation & Inland Wetlands & Watercourses 9/23/26 | 2026-09-23 |
| Town Council Budget Workshop 03/10/2026 | 2026-03-10 |
| Town Council Budget Workshop 03/03/2026 | 2026-03-03 |
| North Branford Town Council 09/17/2024 | 2024-09-17 |
| Board of Education 05/23/2024 | 2024-05-23 |
| North Branford P&Z 1/18/2024 | 2024-01-18 |
| Board of Education - 08/18/2022 | 2022-08-18 |
| North Branford Town Council Meeting - 11/10/2020 | 2020-11-10 |
| North Branford Board of Education Meeting - 01/17/2019 | 2019-01-17 |
| North Branford Town Council Meeting - 09/04/2018 | 2018-09-04 |
| North Branford Planning & Zoning Meeting - 07/12/2018 | 2018-07-12 |
| North Branford Planning & Zoning Meeting - 04/05/2018 | 2018-04-05 |
| North Branford Planning & Zoning Meeting - 04/20/2017 PT.2 | 2017-04-20 |
| North Branford Planning & Zoning Meeting - 04/20/2017 PT.1 | 2017-04-20 |
| North Branford Planning and Zoning Special Meeting - 04/06/2017 | 2017-04-06 |
| North Branford Town Council - 04/04/2017 | 2017-04-04 |
| North Branford Town Council Budget Meeting - 04/04/2017 | 2017-04-04 |
| North Branford Town Council - 03/21/2017 | 2017-03-21 |
| Planning & Zoning - 03/16/2017 | 2017-03-16 |
| Planning & Zoning - 03/09/2017 | 2017-03-09 |
| Planning & Zoning - 03/02/2017 | 2017-03-02 |
| North Branford Town Council - 02/07/2017 | 2017-02-07 |
Tabs never crawled¶
(none)
Get the full transcripts¶
Download North Branford'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 north-branford-meeting-transcripts.zip -d north-branford
cd north-branford
# 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 2026-09-27T15:39:47 from North Branford'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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