Mohave County

In September 2021 Mohave County approved $908,510.05 to replace the video surveillance system inside its adult jail: “cameras, monitors, workstations, network switches, recorders, a database server, and labor”, paid from the Jail Major Maintenance Fund. It was one item in a block of eighteen that the Board passed in a single vote, five to nothing.

A year earlier, on 21 September 2020, its agenda carried a five year agreement with Axon for “body-worn cameras, Taser devices, and associated equipment, software licensing, data hosting services, and training”, at $323,722.13 in the first year and $232,221.06 a year after that: $1,252,606.37 in all.

Whether the Board passed it is not in any document we can reach. That is worth stating precisely, because some of this county’s agendas do record the result: other meetings print lines like “APPROVED MOTION: GOULD/LINGENFELTER VOTE 5/0” after an item. The one carrying the Axon agreement does not. A supervisor, in a budget discussion the following January, said the county “did put a million towards body cameras”.

Why this page is shorter than the others

Mohave County’s own meeting portal is unread.

What we have instead is what the Internet Archive kept of the Board’s meeting documents: 92 of them, 89 readable, scattered across 2013 to 2026. Three of the rest are scans with no text layer. That is enough to show what the county bought when a document survives, and not enough to say anything about what it did not buy. All three of the county’s newspapers are unread too.

What the record does show

The jail cameras and the Axon agreement above.

Motorola’s Spillman police records system, in a 2018 warrants list at $23,800. Six other Arizona counties we have read run Spillman too.

The Kingman Police Department, which is a city department rather than the county’s, published a letter in August 2026 saying it “does not use Flock cameras, and there are currently no plans for the department to implement Flock cameras”. The Atlas of Surveillance credits the county Sheriff’s Office with plate readers, and no purchase of one appears in the documents we could read.

Volunteers have mapped 33 devices in the county. Thirty are Flock Safety plate readers, and four name Lowe’s as the operator, which is a retailer’s cameras sitting in the same dataset as everyone else’s. Two more plate readers carry Motorola Solutions as their manufacturer and name nobody at all.

Where this leaves a resident

The Board meets at 700 W. Beale Street in Kingman, called to order at 9:30 in the morning. To speak you fill in a Request to Speak Form at the back of the room and give it to the Clerk before the meeting. Whether you are heard on an ordinary agenda item is, in the agenda’s own words, “at the discretion of the Chairperson”, and the time limit is printed on the form rather than on the agenda.

Watch the block votes. The jail camera contract passed as one line inside a run of eighteen items approved together, which is the normal way a county buys something large.