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Minnesota Security Consortium - MNSec Bringing Information Security to Local Minnesota Governments Orono Police Department 2023 BWC Audit Executive Summary Page 2 of 7 Background: Orono Police Department retained Minnesota Security Consortium to audit its agency's use of Body- Worn Camera (BWC, see Definitions Section below) program against the requirements of Minn. Stat. § 13.825 and Minn. Stat. § 626.8473. The Minnesota Security Consortium does not operate or have access to their BWC systems, therefore allowing it to audit the systems as an independent auditor. The Orono Police Department provided their administrative access to the WatchGuard/Motorola system during the audit to review audit criteria. Interviews and auditing of the WatchGuard/Motorola system was conducted with the Chief of Police with the assistance of Support Staff. Definitions: For the purposes of this audit and report, the use of the term Body-Worn Camera (BWC) systems shall be the same as the State Statute definition of “Portable Recording Systems,” as defined by Minn. Stat. § 13.825, Subd. 1 (b) as follows: "portable recording system" means a device worn by a peace Officer that is capable of both video and audio recording of the Officer's activities and interactions with others or collecting digital multimedia evidence as part of an investigation "portable recording system data" means audio or video data collected by a portable recording system. "redact" means to blur video or distort audio so that the identity of the subject in a recording is obscured sufficiently to render the subject unidentifiable. Audit Period and Scope: The Audit Period covered by this report covers the period 7/1/21 to 6/30/23. Orono Police Department uses the cloud-based WatchGuard/Motorola video system for its BWC program. Although their WatchGuard/Motorola system records in both in-squad cameras as well as BWC videos, the scope of the audit focused only on BWC video data.