Surveillance technology

FY2026 report never describes 40,352.55 of police gear

$40,352.55

Amount in this finding

DGrade D · provisionalSouth River

Surveillance technology · Verified · Updated 10/03/2026 · 4 documents

The FY2026 report, published 10/01/2026, certifies 41,082.55 spent between 07/01/2025 and 06/30/2026 (p1). It answers No when asked whether the Borough funded any program, so it describes no purchase (p3). It gives the year's goals as prevention of overdose deaths and opioid awareness and education, and names the Police Department among the officials who decided (p2). The books show what the 41,082.55 bought. A 730.00 display order for the prevention program, paid 07/22/2025 by check 73567, which the FY2025 report had listed as encumbered. All Traffic Solutions purchase order 25-03050, MESSAGE BOARD TRAILER-POLICE, 33,722.95, paid by check 75206 on 03/19/2026. Invoice SIN047022 shows an ALPR-ready trailer with a surveillance ready telescoping mast. Eastern Datacomm purchase order 25-03188, 6,629.60, paid by check 75118 on 03/03/2026. Invoice 193452 shows a Verkada two-camera unit and cellular gateway for the police remote trailer. The three make the certified figure to the cent. The trailer and its camera are 40,352.55, or 98.2 percent of it. The report gives overdose prevention as its goal for the money and says no program was funded. It never states that the money bought a police surveillance trailer and camera. Police traffic and surveillance equipment is not among the uses Exhibit E lists, and no overdose program using this equipment is documented. The 12/31/2025 journal moving 16,436.97 back to the grant fund is not spending, and the report leaves it out.