Surveillance-tech report: Waterbury¶
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: Waterbury¶
68 mentions of surveillance technology in 35 Waterbury meetings, 2017–2026
Still incomplete: 75 known meetings are not yet transcribed, so an absence here is not proof a topic never came up.
This report collects every mention of surveillance technology found in Waterbury'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 | 7 | 6 | 2019-11-18 | 2026-08-17 |
| Body cameras | 3 | 2 | 2020-09-21 | 2025-04-22 |
| Drones | 34 | 19 | 2017-09-11 | 2026-09-09 |
| Real-time crime centres | 21 | 12 | 2022-06-02 | 2026-07-23 |
| General surveillance | 3 | 2 | 2025-07-14 | 2025-12-15 |
Timeline¶
35 meetings surfaced a finding (35 dated, spanning 2017-09-11 to 2026-09-09; 0 of unknown date, listed last). Newest first.
Since 2026-08-28 (through 2026-09-27, when this report was generated):
2026-09-09 -- Board of Aldermen¶
Waterbury Board of Aldermen Meeting - September 9, 2026 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...execution of contracts as submitted by Raphael Filino Roman alderman fifth district and Michael Dji Carlo board of alderman president. May I have a motion? >> So move second. I've received a motion...
Earlier meetings (34)
2026-08-17 -- Board of Aldermen
Waterbury Board of Aldermen Meeting - August 17, 2026 (topics: alpr)
alpr_flockWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...insured, and you're supposed to have a license to operate it. From that, I'll talk about the flock cameras for a second. People don't like them, but they're saying you don't want...alpr_flockWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...cameras for a second. People don't like them, but they're saying you don't want the flock cameras, but what about the cameras in the schools, the malls, the banks, Walmart, Stop and Shop, City...
2026-07-23 -- Board of Education
Waterbury Board of Education Workshop and Meeting - July 23, 2026 (topics: drone, rtcc)
rtccWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...Captain Nicoluski of the Waterberry Police Department. With me is Lieutenant Kevin Switz of the Realtime Crime Center. We are here today asking for permission to place a Done airspace...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...it is a rising threat. But that's only one part of this. We are going to be uh beginning a what's called as a drone as first responder program. So, we're adding three drones to our fleet so that...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...>> So that would obviously be a hazard to our very expensive and important uh drone system that we are employing. >> Thank you. >> Yes....rtccWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...everything would be sent back to the police department where we would in our realtime crime center where we operate all those things. >> That's what I was wondering. So it's all...
2026-07-13 -- Board of Aldermen
Waterbury Board of Aldermen Meeting - July 13, 2026 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...that Shadow is still trapped inside. We will do our best to confirm with a thermal drone this evening. We have one trap inside the building thanks to the fire department that we cannot access to...
2026-05-13 -- Board of Aldermen
Waterbury Board of Aldermen Second Special Department Heads Meeting - May 13, 2026 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...bring up in a helicopter. Is that how or is it is that um with a drone? No, they uh they fly it with a plane and I I'm not technical, but they got I don't know 16 cameras or something...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...this. So, maybe I'm off base, but just asking anyways. With drone technology now, would it be possible instead of having to have a plane...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...you ever seen it? Or you don't even know? >> I would think that a drone could fly. I don't know that it would get the same information as a a camera....droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...don't know that it would get the same information as a a camera. >> I don't know. A drone could take >> It was It was just a thought. >> I'm sorry. I think it's the um...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...that would be the difference >> right and I don't I don't I don't know of a drone I I don't know of a comparable program that a drone would be able to to accomplish that. It was just...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...>> right and I don't I don't I don't know of a drone I I don't know of a comparable program that a drone would be able to to accomplish that. It was just a thought. I mean, I'm not I don't know...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...>> Thank you. >> And it would be nice to see if someday it was able to be put on a drone where you could just have somebody out there playing....
2026-05-12 -- Board of Aldermen
Waterbury Board of Aldermen First Special Department Heads Meeting - May 12, 2026 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...people can receive training in, such as our forensics unit, our accident reconstruction unit. We have a drone unit. We have a mounted unit. There's just...
2025-12-18 -- Board of Education
Waterbury Board of Education Meeting - December 18, 2025 (topics: rtcc)
rtccWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...at the Waterberry Police Department and uh, the commissioners were able to get a chance to visit the real-time crime center, learn an awful lot about all of those things that we do behind the...
2025-12-15 -- Board of Aldermen
Waterbury Board of Aldermen Meeting - December 15, 2025 (topics: drone, rtcc, surveillance_general)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...currently have going on and tools that we have at the police department. Uh, we have a very robust drone system. Many of you may be aware of that. Many of you may have been watching some of the...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...may have been watching some of the overviews from the recent water break that were provided by that drone system. It will also provide uh software for the real-time crime center that will connect...rtccWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...that were provided by that drone system. It will also provide uh software for the real-time crime center that will connect our surveillance camera feeds, our CAD system and coordinate all technical...surveillance_generalWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...It will also provide uh software for the real-time crime center that will connect our surveillance camera feeds, our CAD system and coordinate all technical infrastructure within that crime center...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...grammar check, um kind of a report writing assistant program. Um AI is used uh you know uh in in the drone programs currently. um but on a limited basis. Um there is a lot of R&D that's going on uh...
2025-08-06 -- Board of Education
Waterbury Board of Education Workshop - August 6, 2025 (topics: rtcc)
rtccWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...uniform. um we have access in the places that the schools needed them and all this footage goes back to real-time crime center where it's watched 24/7. Um that is an important aspect considering...rtccWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...to go into lockdown which would be the time we use it we will get an alert at uh dispatch realtime crime center and then on our phones we know even before a 911 call is made that we have an issue...rtccWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...assess any vulnerabilities at the school and then we um do obviously Mr. Straen works at the real-time crime center monitors situations for us at the schools all day long and then I'm in...rtccWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...staffing is I have a security coordinator, Mr. Gizzy. I have Mr. Straen that works at the real time crime center and I have Sue Silva that assists me with all the processes and protocols...
2025-07-14 -- Board of Aldermen
Waterbury Board of Aldermen Meeting - July 14, 2025 (topics: surveillance_general)
surveillance_generalWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...Um next slide here we talk about the sanitary sewers. Again we we are we did some CCTV of the sanitary sewers. Um that is also part of this project to do more videotaping the pipe. Um and again...surveillance_generalWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...sanitary goes into the storm. But basically we're trying to we we see all this in the CCTV um cross connections and um propose...
2025-06-23 -- Board of Aldermen
Waterbury Board of Aldermen Meeting - June 23, 2025 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...day. The roof is cupped. The roof is cracked. The roof is starting to leak on the church. I put my son's drone up there. I'm not a structural engineer. I'm not a roofing contractor. You don't...
2025-04-22 -- Board of Aldermen
Waterbury Board of Aldermen Second Meeting with Department Heads - April 22, 2025 (topics: body_camera)
body_cameraWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...mandated by state law. Uh the biggest piece of that pie would be the uh the body worn camera and dash camera system that we're now required to have and also retain all that information uh through...
2025-01-08 -- Board of Aldermen
Waterbury Board of Aldermen Meeting - January 8, 2025 (topics: rtcc)
rtccWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...permanent restrooms there will be cameras that will be hooked up as part of those restrooms they will be part of the police surveillance system hooked right into the real-time crime Center which will uh be far more effective at understanding what's going on in that Park and making the responses better so I don't want want it to seem like nobody listened to the issues or took them...
2024-11-12 -- Board of Aldermen
Waterbury Board of Aldermen Meeting - November 12, 2024 (topics: alpr)
alpr_flockWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...13,111 14.15 this contract consists of 20 license plate readers License Plate Reader cameras installed at nine locations in the city as submitted by...
2024-11-07 -- Board of Education
Waterbury Board of Education Workshop - November 7, 2024 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...various teachers that have requested professional learning um additional training for drone technology utilizing our 3D printers that we have in our school system uh teacher going to be...
2024-09-19 -- Board of Education
Waterbury Board of Education Meeting - September 19, 2024 (topics: rtcc)
rtccWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...2,300 cameras in the school that are not only connected to uh Dan's office but the realtime crime Center to make sure that students and staff are safe at all times some of the new and recent updates...
2024-09-09 -- Board of Aldermen
Waterbury Board of Aldermen Meeting - September 9, 2024 (topics: rtcc)
rtccWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...we're in compliance um you know there may have been some other areas it talked about the realtime crime Center being open uh more extended uh hours we've done that uh I and if you had a a...rtccWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...list that you're going to provide us but we have two so that's all set yes okay and then the I guess um the real time crime Center there was a suggestion to have 24-hour Staffing do we need to add...
2024-07-11 -- Board of Education
Waterbury Board of Education Workshop - July 11, 2024 (topics: rtcc)
rtccWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...working they were working off at different platforms um there was no connection to the real-time crime Center um we had no modern mapping for any of the schools which is an important key...rtccWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...Uniform laid out the same so that was and it's now we're all connected down to the real-time crime Center where somebody every day is watching the cameras and working with the schools so...
2024-05-15 -- Board of Aldermen
Waterbury Board of Aldermen Fourth Meeting with Department Heads - May 15, 2024 (topics: alpr, drone)
alpr_flockWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...required um how are we doing with the traffic uh do we are we in getting into uh cameras on the traffic lights in the city the police department is handling the traffic camera uh program in addition to License Plate Reader um I'll have to defer to where they're at with that I but couldn't answer you adequately in that regard on page...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...yeah Beyond an arborous it's more than an arborist it's it's also land you know that has a background in surveying so that we could go out and we have a you know we have a drone we have technology there's software that the Drone can fly and identify you know vegetation that's uh you know different different types of vegetation uh you know ash trees other other trees that are dead other areas...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...the terrain out in Warren and you know these towns out there is you know you can't walk it it's it's impassible you can't drive a vehicle so it's very very difficult to get to the Drone allows us to be able to you know identify areas that we could do a harvest and the Forester would be head that up so we're going we plan to take full advantage of all the all of the uh you know...
2023-10-05 -- Board of Education
Waterbury Board of Education Workshop - October 5, 2023 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...the Carl Perkins Grant materials will be used to offer additional sections of Robotics and drone technology courses uh these are the same courses we have been offering but they've become so...
2023-08-03 -- Board of Education
Waterbury Board of Education Workshop & Special Meeting - August 3, 2023 (topics: drone, rtcc)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...forward to continuing that for the upcoming year but also cyber security Robotics and drone piloting career Pathways for CTE highlights for the first time we offered Mastery...rtccWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...access entries reduce camera and server issues and now all schools are connected to the real-time crime Center via the Milestone platform which was and continues to be something...rtccWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...for emergency services as well as coordinated camera views in the alerting school down at the real-time crime Center so essentially interoperability between the school and emergency...rtccWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...Security so just really quickly monitoring of all School sites via Personnel located at the real-time crime Center so in other words you watch all the cameras we go through we watch...
2022-11-14 -- Board of Aldermen
Waterbury Board of Aldermen Meeting - November 14, 2022 (topics: alpr, rtcc)
rtccWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...kind of a collaboration between Waterbury Police Department specifically the real-time crime Center which organizes and displays all of the cameras at some...alpr_flockWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...that was approved by the board earlier this year for the software which runs the LPR or the License Plate Reader cameras so they are in discussions about where would be the best places...
2022-10-13 -- Board of Education
Waterbury Board of Education Workshop & Special Meeting - October 13, 2022 (topics: rtcc)
rtccWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...we uh I would encourage uh the board um to come and take a look at the real-time crime Center at the police department so um it's it's a very robust highly...
2022-06-20 -- Board of Aldermen
Waterbury Board of Aldermen Meeting - June 20, 2022 (topics: alpr)
alpr_flockWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...contract between the city of waterbury and recore recognition system services for professional software and license plate reader units alderman bernelli is their motion...
2022-06-02 -- Board of Education
Waterbury Board of Education Workshop - June 2, 2022 (topics: rtcc)
rtccWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...um and then the milestone platform which i spoke about is compatible with the real-time crime center here watery pd across the street what that means is they're able to...rtccWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...do it now which is your dial 9-1-1 that would be an instant response down to the pd the cameras in the real-time crime center would come up and the pd and instantaneously have an idea of what was...
2022-05-02 -- Board of Education
Waterbury Board of Education Workshop - May 2, 2022 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...t cluster this grant will be used to particularly support our drone kits and our raspberry pi kits in our schools and if you've...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...if i think mike marotti has come in front of you before but those drone kits are really exciting we have a lot of students applying for...
2021-10-07 -- Board of Education
Waterbury Board of Education Workshop - October 7, 2021 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...you leverage that technology for learning um we also launched that engineering drone software development and amazon future engineering programs at our schools...
2021-07-15 -- Board of Education
Waterbury Board of Education Meeting - July 15, 2021 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...b the new england laborers training association c drone technology d drone operator prep honors e manufacturing three honors f...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...association c drone technology d drone operator prep honors e manufacturing three honors f foundation of leadership post g...
2021-05-06 -- Board of Education
Waterbury Board of Education Workshop - May 6, 2021 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...education is one of the best in the state we are going to be offering drone technology engineering software development...
2021-04-01 -- Board of Education
Waterbury Board of Education Workshop - April 1, 2021 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...also for physical pieces that go with the curriculum which includes robots and Robotics and drone technology for our students we had a lot of uh a lot of students interested in um um taking...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...students we had a lot of uh a lot of students interested in um um taking those drone classes last year we couldn't get this off the ground and running but uh this this this uh would...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...couldn't get this off the ground and running but uh this this this uh would allow us to to get those drone classes up and running for next year all...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...Mike no I mean it's it's going to supply the district with um at the high school level a full year of drone technology courses a full year of engineering courses and a full year of software...
2020-09-21 -- Board of Aldermen
Waterbury Board of Aldermen Meeting - September 21, 2020 (topics: body_camera)
body_cameraWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...earlier this month the waterbury police department began the first in a series of body worn camera trials axon was selected as the first body warrant for this trial axon has it's a...body_cameraWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...today's technology has built safeguards that will trigger the activation of a body-worn camera in any number of situations including when a firearm or a taser is drawn the waterbury police...
2019-11-18 -- Board of Aldermen
Waterbury Board of Aldermen - October November 18, 2019 (topics: alpr)
alpr_flockWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...Dave Simpson for everything she done by the way dave has been working with our group and our flock and he's come to our meetings and we're gonna be putting up a lot of more American flags in Waterville...
2018-09-06 -- Board of Education
Waterbury Board of Education Workshop — September 6, 2018 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...in the area of tech ed we have one exciting initiative at Kennedy which is a drone pilot program where we watch some pretty fancy equipment for the visual video production teacher I didn't...
2018-08-20 -- Board of Aldermen
Waterbury Board of Aldermen - August 20, 2018 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...Committee respects he recommends that the board of all going to prove a refund request for a with drone withdrawn Zoning Board of Appeals application in the amount of six hundred sixty dollars...
2017-09-11 -- Board of Aldermen
Waterbury Board of Aldermen – September 11, 2017 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...was a tremendously bad fire four buildings burned this is from actually a drone shot that we put in there and I'll just run through the rest of the slides here for you by task force meets every...
Findings by topic¶
ai_data_fusion¶
(no findings)
alpr¶
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[2026-08-17] Board of Aldermen -- Waterbury Board of Aldermen Meeting - August 17, 2026
...cameras for a second. People don't like them, but they're saying you don't want the flock cameras, but what about the cameras in the schools, the malls, the banks, Walmart, Stop and Shop, City... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
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[2026-08-17] Board of Aldermen -- Waterbury Board of Aldermen Meeting - August 17, 2026
...insured, and you're supposed to have a license to operate it. From that, I'll talk about the flock cameras for a second. People don't like them, but they're saying you don't want... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
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[2024-11-12] Board of Aldermen -- Waterbury Board of Aldermen Meeting - November 12, 2024
...13,111 14.15 this contract consists of 20 license plate readers License Plate Reader cameras installed at nine locations in the city as submitted by... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
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[2024-05-15] Board of Aldermen -- Waterbury Board of Aldermen Fourth Meeting with Department Heads - May 15, 2024
...required um how are we doing with the traffic uh do we are we in getting into uh cameras on the traffic lights in the city the police department is handling the traffic camera uh program in addition to License Plate Reader um I'll have to defer to where they're at with that I but couldn't answer you adequately in that regard on page... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
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[2022-11-14] Board of Aldermen -- Waterbury Board of Aldermen Meeting - November 14, 2022
...that was approved by the board earlier this year for the software which runs the LPR or the License Plate Reader cameras so they are in discussions about where would be the best places... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
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[2022-06-20] Board of Aldermen -- Waterbury Board of Aldermen Meeting - June 20, 2022
...contract between the city of waterbury and recore recognition system services for professional software and license plate reader units alderman bernelli is their motion... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
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[2019-11-18] Board of Aldermen -- Waterbury Board of Aldermen - October November 18, 2019
...Dave Simpson for everything she done by the way dave has been working with our group and our flock and he's come to our meetings and we're gonna be putting up a lot of more American flags in Waterville... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
biometrics_other¶
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body_camera¶
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[2025-04-22] Board of Aldermen -- Waterbury Board of Aldermen Second Meeting with Department Heads - April 22, 2025
...mandated by state law. Uh the biggest piece of that pie would be the uh the body worn camera and dash camera system that we're now required to have and also retain all that information uh through... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: body_camera, unreviewed)
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[2020-09-21] Board of Aldermen -- Waterbury Board of Aldermen Meeting - September 21, 2020
...today's technology has built safeguards that will trigger the activation of a body-worn camera in any number of situations including when a firearm or a taser is drawn the waterbury police... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: body_camera, unreviewed)
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[2020-09-21] Board of Aldermen -- Waterbury Board of Aldermen Meeting - September 21, 2020
...earlier this month the waterbury police department began the first in a series of body worn camera trials axon was selected as the first body warrant for this trial axon has it's a... 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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[2026-09-09] Board of Aldermen -- Waterbury Board of Aldermen Meeting - September 9, 2026
...execution of contracts as submitted by Raphael Filino Roman alderman fifth district and Michael Dji Carlo board of alderman president. May I have a motion? >> So move second. I've received a motion... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2026-07-23] Board of Education -- Waterbury Board of Education Workshop and Meeting - July 23, 2026
...>> So that would obviously be a hazard to our very expensive and important uh drone system that we are employing. >> Thank you. >> Yes.... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2026-07-23] Board of Education -- Waterbury Board of Education Workshop and Meeting - July 23, 2026
...it is a rising threat. But that's only one part of this. We are going to be uh beginning a what's called as a drone as first responder program. So, we're adding three drones to our fleet so that... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2026-07-13] Board of Aldermen -- Waterbury Board of Aldermen Meeting - July 13, 2026
...that Shadow is still trapped inside. We will do our best to confirm with a thermal drone this evening. We have one trap inside the building thanks to the fire department that we cannot access to... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2026-05-13] Board of Aldermen -- Waterbury Board of Aldermen Second Special Department Heads Meeting - May 13, 2026
...don't know that it would get the same information as a a camera. >> I don't know. A drone could take >> It was It was just a thought. >> I'm sorry. I think it's the um... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2026-05-13] Board of Aldermen -- Waterbury Board of Aldermen Second Special Department Heads Meeting - May 13, 2026
...that would be the difference >> right and I don't I don't I don't know of a drone I I don't know of a comparable program that a drone would be able to to accomplish that. It was just... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2026-05-13] Board of Aldermen -- Waterbury Board of Aldermen Second Special Department Heads Meeting - May 13, 2026
...this. So, maybe I'm off base, but just asking anyways. With drone technology now, would it be possible instead of having to have a plane... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2026-05-13] Board of Aldermen -- Waterbury Board of Aldermen Second Special Department Heads Meeting - May 13, 2026
...>> Thank you. >> And it would be nice to see if someday it was able to be put on a drone where you could just have somebody out there playing.... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2026-05-13] Board of Aldermen -- Waterbury Board of Aldermen Second Special Department Heads Meeting - May 13, 2026
...>> right and I don't I don't I don't know of a drone I I don't know of a comparable program that a drone would be able to to accomplish that. It was just a thought. I mean, I'm not I don't know... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2026-05-13] Board of Aldermen -- Waterbury Board of Aldermen Second Special Department Heads Meeting - May 13, 2026
...bring up in a helicopter. Is that how or is it is that um with a drone? No, they uh they fly it with a plane and I I'm not technical, but they got I don't know 16 cameras or something... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2026-05-13] Board of Aldermen -- Waterbury Board of Aldermen Second Special Department Heads Meeting - May 13, 2026
...you ever seen it? Or you don't even know? >> I would think that a drone could fly. I don't know that it would get the same information as a a camera.... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2026-05-12] Board of Aldermen -- Waterbury Board of Aldermen First Special Department Heads Meeting - May 12, 2026
...people can receive training in, such as our forensics unit, our accident reconstruction unit. We have a drone unit. We have a mounted unit. There's just... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2025-12-15] Board of Aldermen -- Waterbury Board of Aldermen Meeting - December 15, 2025
...grammar check, um kind of a report writing assistant program. Um AI is used uh you know uh in in the drone programs currently. um but on a limited basis. Um there is a lot of R&D that's going on uh... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2025-12-15] Board of Aldermen -- Waterbury Board of Aldermen Meeting - December 15, 2025
...may have been watching some of the overviews from the recent water break that were provided by that drone system. It will also provide uh software for the real-time crime center that will connect... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2025-12-15] Board of Aldermen -- Waterbury Board of Aldermen Meeting - December 15, 2025
...currently have going on and tools that we have at the police department. Uh, we have a very robust drone system. Many of you may be aware of that. Many of you may have been watching some of the... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2025-06-23] Board of Aldermen -- Waterbury Board of Aldermen Meeting - June 23, 2025
...day. The roof is cupped. The roof is cracked. The roof is starting to leak on the church. I put my son's drone up there. I'm not a structural engineer. I'm not a roofing contractor. You don't... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2024-11-07] Board of Education -- Waterbury Board of Education Workshop - November 7, 2024
...various teachers that have requested professional learning um additional training for drone technology utilizing our 3D printers that we have in our school system uh teacher going to be... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2024-05-15] Board of Aldermen -- Waterbury Board of Aldermen Fourth Meeting with Department Heads - May 15, 2024
...yeah Beyond an arborous it's more than an arborist it's it's also land you know that has a background in surveying so that we could go out and we have a you know we have a drone we have technology there's software that the Drone can fly and identify you know vegetation that's uh you know different different types of vegetation uh you know ash trees other other trees that are dead other areas... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2024-05-15] Board of Aldermen -- Waterbury Board of Aldermen Fourth Meeting with Department Heads - May 15, 2024
...the terrain out in Warren and you know these towns out there is you know you can't walk it it's it's impassible you can't drive a vehicle so it's very very difficult to get to the Drone allows us to be able to you know identify areas that we could do a harvest and the Forester would be head that up so we're going we plan to take full advantage of all the all of the uh you know... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2023-10-05] Board of Education -- Waterbury Board of Education Workshop - October 5, 2023
...the Carl Perkins Grant materials will be used to offer additional sections of Robotics and drone technology courses uh these are the same courses we have been offering but they've become so... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2023-08-03] Board of Education -- Waterbury Board of Education Workshop & Special Meeting - August 3, 2023
...forward to continuing that for the upcoming year but also cyber security Robotics and drone piloting career Pathways for CTE highlights for the first time we offered Mastery... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2022-05-02] Board of Education -- Waterbury Board of Education Workshop - May 2, 2022
...if i think mike marotti has come in front of you before but those drone kits are really exciting we have a lot of students applying for... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2022-05-02] Board of Education -- Waterbury Board of Education Workshop - May 2, 2022
...t cluster this grant will be used to particularly support our drone kits and our raspberry pi kits in our schools and if you've... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2021-10-07] Board of Education -- Waterbury Board of Education Workshop - October 7, 2021
...you leverage that technology for learning um we also launched that engineering drone software development and amazon future engineering programs at our schools... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2021-07-15] Board of Education -- Waterbury Board of Education Meeting - July 15, 2021
...association c drone technology d drone operator prep honors e manufacturing three honors f foundation of leadership post g... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2021-07-15] Board of Education -- Waterbury Board of Education Meeting - July 15, 2021
...b the new england laborers training association c drone technology d drone operator prep honors e manufacturing three honors f... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2021-05-06] Board of Education -- Waterbury Board of Education Workshop - May 6, 2021
...education is one of the best in the state we are going to be offering drone technology engineering software development... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2021-04-01] Board of Education -- Waterbury Board of Education Workshop - April 1, 2021
...Mike no I mean it's it's going to supply the district with um at the high school level a full year of drone technology courses a full year of engineering courses and a full year of software... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2021-04-01] Board of Education -- Waterbury Board of Education Workshop - April 1, 2021
...also for physical pieces that go with the curriculum which includes robots and Robotics and drone technology for our students we had a lot of uh a lot of students interested in um um taking... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2021-04-01] Board of Education -- Waterbury Board of Education Workshop - April 1, 2021
...students we had a lot of uh a lot of students interested in um um taking those drone classes last year we couldn't get this off the ground and running but uh this this this uh would... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2021-04-01] Board of Education -- Waterbury Board of Education Workshop - April 1, 2021
...couldn't get this off the ground and running but uh this this this uh would allow us to to get those drone classes up and running for next year all... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2018-09-06] Board of Education -- Waterbury Board of Education Workshop — September 6, 2018
...in the area of tech ed we have one exciting initiative at Kennedy which is a drone pilot program where we watch some pretty fancy equipment for the visual video production teacher I didn't... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2018-08-20] Board of Aldermen -- Waterbury Board of Aldermen - August 20, 2018
...Committee respects he recommends that the board of all going to prove a refund request for a with drone withdrawn Zoning Board of Appeals application in the amount of six hundred sixty dollars... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
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[2017-09-11] Board of Aldermen -- Waterbury Board of Aldermen – September 11, 2017
...was a tremendously bad fire four buildings burned this is from actually a drone shot that we put in there and I'll just run through the rest of the slides here for you by task force meets every... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
facial_recognition¶
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gunshot_detection¶
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mobile_forensics¶
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osint_social_monitor¶
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predictive_policing¶
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purchasing_broker¶
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rtcc¶
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[2026-07-23] Board of Education -- Waterbury Board of Education Workshop and Meeting - July 23, 2026
...everything would be sent back to the police department where we would in our realtime crime center where we operate all those things. >> That's what I was wondering. So it's all... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: rtcc, unreviewed)
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[2026-07-23] Board of Education -- Waterbury Board of Education Workshop and Meeting - July 23, 2026
...Captain Nicoluski of the Waterberry Police Department. With me is Lieutenant Kevin Switz of the Realtime Crime Center. We are here today asking for permission to place a Done airspace... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: rtcc, unreviewed)
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[2025-12-18] Board of Education -- Waterbury Board of Education Meeting - December 18, 2025
...at the Waterberry Police Department and uh, the commissioners were able to get a chance to visit the real-time crime center, learn an awful lot about all of those things that we do behind the... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: rtcc, unreviewed)
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[2025-12-15] Board of Aldermen -- Waterbury Board of Aldermen Meeting - December 15, 2025
...that were provided by that drone system. It will also provide uh software for the real-time crime center that will connect our surveillance camera feeds, our CAD system and coordinate all technical... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: rtcc, unreviewed)
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[2025-08-06] Board of Education -- Waterbury Board of Education Workshop - August 6, 2025
...staffing is I have a security coordinator, Mr. Gizzy. I have Mr. Straen that works at the real time crime center and I have Sue Silva that assists me with all the processes and protocols... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: rtcc, unreviewed)
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[2025-08-06] Board of Education -- Waterbury Board of Education Workshop - August 6, 2025
...assess any vulnerabilities at the school and then we um do obviously Mr. Straen works at the real-time crime center monitors situations for us at the schools all day long and then I'm in... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: rtcc, unreviewed)
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[2025-08-06] Board of Education -- Waterbury Board of Education Workshop - August 6, 2025
...uniform. um we have access in the places that the schools needed them and all this footage goes back to real-time crime center where it's watched 24/7. Um that is an important aspect considering... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: rtcc, unreviewed)
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[2025-08-06] Board of Education -- Waterbury Board of Education Workshop - August 6, 2025
...to go into lockdown which would be the time we use it we will get an alert at uh dispatch realtime crime center and then on our phones we know even before a 911 call is made that we have an issue... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: rtcc, unreviewed)
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[2025-01-08] Board of Aldermen -- Waterbury Board of Aldermen Meeting - January 8, 2025
...permanent restrooms there will be cameras that will be hooked up as part of those restrooms they will be part of the police surveillance system hooked right into the real-time crime Center which will uh be far more effective at understanding what's going on in that Park and making the responses better so I don't want want it to seem like nobody listened to the issues or took them... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: rtcc, unreviewed)
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[2024-09-19] Board of Education -- Waterbury Board of Education Meeting - September 19, 2024
...2,300 cameras in the school that are not only connected to uh Dan's office but the realtime crime Center to make sure that students and staff are safe at all times some of the new and recent updates... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: rtcc, unreviewed)
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[2024-09-09] Board of Aldermen -- Waterbury Board of Aldermen Meeting - September 9, 2024
...we're in compliance um you know there may have been some other areas it talked about the realtime crime Center being open uh more extended uh hours we've done that uh I and if you had a a... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: rtcc, unreviewed)
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[2024-09-09] Board of Aldermen -- Waterbury Board of Aldermen Meeting - September 9, 2024
...list that you're going to provide us but we have two so that's all set yes okay and then the I guess um the real time crime Center there was a suggestion to have 24-hour Staffing do we need to add... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: rtcc, unreviewed)
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[2024-07-11] Board of Education -- Waterbury Board of Education Workshop - July 11, 2024
...Uniform laid out the same so that was and it's now we're all connected down to the real-time crime Center where somebody every day is watching the cameras and working with the schools so... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: rtcc, unreviewed)
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[2024-07-11] Board of Education -- Waterbury Board of Education Workshop - July 11, 2024
...working they were working off at different platforms um there was no connection to the real-time crime Center um we had no modern mapping for any of the schools which is an important key... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: rtcc, unreviewed)
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[2023-08-03] Board of Education -- Waterbury Board of Education Workshop & Special Meeting - August 3, 2023
...for emergency services as well as coordinated camera views in the alerting school down at the real-time crime Center so essentially interoperability between the school and emergency... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: rtcc, unreviewed)
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[2023-08-03] Board of Education -- Waterbury Board of Education Workshop & Special Meeting - August 3, 2023
...access entries reduce camera and server issues and now all schools are connected to the real-time crime Center via the Milestone platform which was and continues to be something... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: rtcc, unreviewed)
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[2023-08-03] Board of Education -- Waterbury Board of Education Workshop & Special Meeting - August 3, 2023
...Security so just really quickly monitoring of all School sites via Personnel located at the real-time crime Center so in other words you watch all the cameras we go through we watch... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: rtcc, unreviewed)
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[2022-11-14] Board of Aldermen -- Waterbury Board of Aldermen Meeting - November 14, 2022
...kind of a collaboration between Waterbury Police Department specifically the real-time crime Center which organizes and displays all of the cameras at some... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: rtcc, unreviewed)
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[2022-10-13] Board of Education -- Waterbury Board of Education Workshop & Special Meeting - October 13, 2022
...we uh I would encourage uh the board um to come and take a look at the real-time crime Center at the police department so um it's it's a very robust highly... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: rtcc, unreviewed)
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[2022-06-02] Board of Education -- Waterbury Board of Education Workshop - June 2, 2022
...um and then the milestone platform which i spoke about is compatible with the real-time crime center here watery pd across the street what that means is they're able to... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: rtcc, unreviewed)
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[2022-06-02] Board of Education -- Waterbury Board of Education Workshop - June 2, 2022
...do it now which is your dial 9-1-1 that would be an instant response down to the pd the cameras in the real-time crime center would come up and the pd and instantaneously have an idea of what was... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: rtcc, unreviewed)
surveillance_general¶
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[2025-12-15] Board of Aldermen -- Waterbury Board of Aldermen Meeting - December 15, 2025
...It will also provide uh software for the real-time crime center that will connect our surveillance camera feeds, our CAD system and coordinate all technical infrastructure within that crime center... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: surveillance_general, unreviewed)
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[2025-07-14] Board of Aldermen -- Waterbury Board of Aldermen Meeting - July 14, 2025
...Um next slide here we talk about the sanitary sewers. Again we we are we did some CCTV of the sanitary sewers. Um that is also part of this project to do more videotaping the pipe. Um and again... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: surveillance_general, unreviewed)
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[2025-07-14] Board of Aldermen -- Waterbury Board of Aldermen Meeting - July 14, 2025
...sanitary goes into the storm. But basically we're trying to we we see all this in the CCTV um cross connections and um propose... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: surveillance_general, unreviewed)
undercover_tools¶
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vehicle_forensics¶
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video_analytics¶
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Agenda/minutes mentions (unreviewed -- live keyword scan, no human review queue yet)¶
ai_data_fusion¶
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alpr¶
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biometrics_other¶
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body_camera¶
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cad¶
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cell_site_sim¶
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data_broker¶
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doorbell_partnership¶
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drone¶
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facial_recognition¶
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gunshot_detection¶
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mobile_forensics¶
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osint_social_monitor¶
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predictive_policing¶
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purchasing_broker¶
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rtcc¶
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surveillance_general¶
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undercover_tools¶
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vehicle_forensics¶
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video_analytics¶
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How this report was built¶
Everything below describes the corpus and its limits, rather than what was found in it.
Coverage status¶
- Channels registered: 2
- Active meeting bodies: 6
- Videos registered: 521 (fetched: 445, no captions: 15)
- Date range covered: 2017-07-27 to 2026-09-21 — based on the 515 of 521 videos that carry a parseable upload date; the other 6 are undated, so the real corpus may extend beyond this range in either direction
Channels¶
| display_name | channel_id | handle |
|---|---|---|
| City of Waterbury | city_of_waterbury | @cityofwaterbury2129 |
| Waterbury Board of Education | waterbury_boe | @waterburyboardofeducation7591 |
Tab crawl history¶
| channel_id | tab | last_crawled_at | video_count |
|---|---|---|---|
| city_of_waterbury | streams | 2026-09-27 14:26:44.021989 | 196 |
| city_of_waterbury | videos | 2026-09-27 14:26:40.647595 | 117 |
| waterbury_boe | streams | 2026-09-27 14:18:53.140233 | 146 |
| waterbury_boe | videos | 2026-09-27 14:18:50.747141 | 205 |
Registered meeting bodies¶
| body_name | category | active | video_count |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finance and Audit Review Commission | budget_finance | True | 0 |
| Board of Aldermen | council | True | 261 |
| Board of Education | education | True | 259 |
| Board of Public Works | other | True | 0 |
| Charter Revision Commission | other | True | 1 |
| Board of Police Commissioners | public_safety | True | 0 |
Zero videos registered for: Finance and Audit Review Commission, Board of Public Works, Board of Police Commissioners
Agenda/minutes coverage¶
- Agenda sources registered: 1
- Documents registered: 0 (fetched: 0)
- Date range covered: no agenda document on file carries a parseable date yet
Agenda sources¶
| source_id | platform | base_url | status |
|---|---|---|---|
| waterbury_custom | custom | https://www.waterburyct.org/administration/boards-and-commissions/agendas-minutes-notices | unconfirmed |
Research log¶
| logged_at | field_name | new_value | source | by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-13 16:40:34.129209 | boe_surveillance_note | BOE meeting 2026-07-23: Waterbury PD Real Time Crime Center requested BOE approval to install "Drone Beyond" (radar+camera airspace drone-detection system) on Waterbury Career Academy roof; disclosed new PD "drone as first responder" program (3 drones added to fleet). | BOE transcript keyword scan + context review, 2026-08-13 | claude |
| 2026-08-13 16:40:34.160004 | boe_surveillance_note | BOE camera build-out 2021-2025: district camera count grew from <800 (spring 2021) to ~3,000 (Aug 2025) via state security grants; ALL schools connected to Waterbury PD Real Time Crime Center via "Milestone" platform; RTCC staff watch feeds on set daily cadence (arrival/recess/lunch/dismissal) and alert SROs. | BOE transcript keyword scan + context review, 2026-08-13 | claude |
| 2026-08-12 08:24:48.888858 | channel_found | city_of_waterbury (@cityofwaterbury2129) | City of Waterbury YouTube channel | claude |
| 2026-08-12 08:24:48.888858 | channel_found | waterbury_boe (@waterburyboardofeducation7591) | Dedicated Board of Education replay channel, separate from city government channel | claude |
| 2026-08-12 08:24:48.888858 | coverage_gap_confirmed | FARC, Board of Police Commissioners, and Board of Public Works all show 0 matches across a full unfiltered crawl of both tabs (310 titles) on the City of Waterbury channel | yt-dlp --flat-playlist crawl of youtube.com/@cityofwaterbury2129 videos+streams, 2026-08-12 | claude |
| 2026-08-12 08:50:52.508426 | fetch_blocked_ratelimit | Full filtered fetch (515 videos) hit a YouTube rate-limit/bot-check block ("Sign in to confirm you are not a bot") mid-run, likely from cumulative request volume across Hartford/Bridgeport/New Haven earlier the same session (~1900+ yt-dlp calls total). Caught a real labeling bug in the process: the transcript fetcher was silently discarding yt-dlp errors/exit codes and mislabeling every one of these as fetch_status=no_captions (confirmed absence) instead of error (could not check) -- fixed (CaptionFetchError now raised on non-zero yt-dlp exit, only a clean exit-0-with-no-file counts as genuine no_captions). All 515 videos reset from no_captions back to pending for a clean re-fetch. Block appears intermittent, not fully cleared as of this check. | Direct debugging session, 2026-08-12 | claude |
| 2026-08-12 08:24:48.888858 | governance_structure_confirmed | Board of Aldermen (15 at-large) has NO standing sub-committees, unlike Hartford/Bridgeport/New Haven -- budget/police/public-works oversight sits in separate independent boards: Finance and Audit Review Commission (FARC), Board of Police Commissioners, Board of Public Works | waterburyct.org/administration/boards-and-commissions/board-of-aldermen + waterburyct.org/boards-commissions/meetings/agendas-minutes | claude |
Gaps and caveats¶
Videos with no captions available (15 shown, max 25)¶
| title | upload_date |
|---|---|
| Waterbury Board of Aldermen Meeting - September 21, 2026 | 2026-09-21 |
| Waterbury Board of Education Workshop - September 3, 2026 | 2026-09-03 |
| Waterbury Board of Education Workshop - June 4, 2026 | 2026-06-04 |
| Waterbury Board of Aldermen Third Special Department Heads Meeting - May 14, 2026 | 2026-05-14 |
| Waterbury Board of Education Workshop - April 2, 2026 | 2026-04-02 |
| Waterbury Board of Education Workshop - June 5, 2025 | 2025-06-05 |
| Waterbury Board of Education Workshop - October 3, 2024 | 2024-10-03 |
| Waterbury Board of Education Workshop - April 4, 2024 | 2024-04-04 |
| Waterbury Board of Education Workshop - February 2, 2023 | 2023-02-02 |
| Waterbury Board of Aldermen Special Meeting - April 4, 2022 | 2022-04-04 |
| Waterbury Board of Education Special Meeting - July 28, 2021 | 2021-07-28 |
| Waterbury Board of Aldermen Public Hearing on the Budget - June 1, 2021 | 2021-06-01 |
| Waterbury Board of Education Workshop - April 3, 2019 | 2019-04-03 |
| Waterbury Board of Education Meeting - March 21, 2019 | 2019-03-21 |
| Waterbury Board of Education Workshop - March 7, 2019 | 2019-03-07 |
Tabs never crawled¶
(none)
Get the full transcripts¶
Download Waterbury'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 waterbury-meeting-transcripts.zip -d waterbury
cd waterbury
# 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 2026-09-27T16:04:36 from Waterbury'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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