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The committee voted 3-0 to recommend filing several police and fire communications while ordering follow-up reports on body-camera language access, ShotSpotter costs and outcomes, firefighter recruitment, and sprinkler incentives.
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The committee reviewed police body-camera use, ShotSpotter, police details, PFAS-free firefighting gear, firefighter recruitment, and fire sprinkler policies. Officials were asked to compare the 50 real-time languages available through police body-camera software with languages spoken in Worcester Public Schools and seek additional language options. The committee also requested information on ShotSpotter costs since 2014, arrests or detainments linked to gun violence, recruitment events, and incentives for property owners to install sprinklers. The committee recommended filing the sprinkler-related proposal, which concerned automatic sprinklers in residential buildings with four or more units, but the minutes note that a later City Council vote changed one councilor's position.
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