# Van Buren Police Department Municipal police department for [[City of Van Buren|Van Buren]], Crawford County. Its first rolling surveillance production documents a multi-product Flock account, three ARDOT-permitted LPR locations, WatchGuard/Motorola body-worn and in-car video, VideoManager retention settings, and policies governing LPR, BWC, MVR, and UAV operations. ## People - [[Justin S. Wasko]] - Captain and records correspondent for the August 2026 rolling production. - [[Jamie Hammond]] - chief of police who proposed the 2020 WatchGuard purchase. - [[Jonathan Wear]] - chief of police named as authority on the produced 2025 policy editions. - [[Joe Hurst]] - mayor addressed in procurement correspondence and requester/signatory on ARDOT permit materials. ## Roles in this corpus ### Flock deployment and billing Twelve invoices show Van Buren's Flock account expanding through Falcon LPRs, Condor/PTZ cameras, a Flex unit, a pole replacement, and a later two-LPR renewal. The recurring 2024 and 2025 co-term invoices each list six LPRs and two video/PTZ units for `$21,000` ([[Van Buren Flock Invoices 2023-2026]]). Grant reports add a distinct operational representation: two 2024 LPRs would be installed on Highway 59 and Highway 162 and would add to a `"current total of eleven"` ([[Van Buren JAG Grant-Funded Flock Cameras]], `ARDOT Financial Report Forms.pdf`, p. 11). ### ARDOT sites The department's Permit 1866/1876 packet crosswalks three Van Buren rows in ARDOT's statewide export to Flock LPR installations. Two locations have separate plan and GIS coordinates; both source stages remain in the public register ([[Van Buren ARDOT Flock Permits 1866 and 1876]]). ### Body-worn and in-car video Ordinance 30-2020 authorized a `$317,571.50` WatchGuard package through four annual installments and waived competitive bidding. Later asset reports document V300 records, twenty in-car assignments, M500 additions, and a substantial replacement/warranty history ([[Van Buren WatchGuard Ordinance Quote and Camera Proposal]]; [[Van Buren WatchGuard Equipment Inventories]]). ### Governance - Policy 2.36 requires LPR search reasons, search logs, secondary-dissemination records, six-month public reports, and a default thirty-day purge. - Policy 2.34 governs WatchGuard BWC activation, quarterly review, deletion, and [[Record After the Fact (RAF)]]. - Policy 4.04 sets a ten-year MVR minimum that the shorter BWC/VideoManager categories do not reconcile ([[T045 - Van Buren Ten-Year MVR Policy vs Shorter VideoManager Retention Rules]]). - Policy 6.06 authorizes a UAV program and requires a use form after each deployment; no inventory or use forms appear in the first rolling release. ## Notes The August 2026 production remains open. Wasko expressly said the department was still working on the remaining requested documents.