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Jay Select Board approves two‑step plan for police merger
The Select Board approved a proposal Monday to merge the town’s Police Department with Wilton’s, combining two of the four law enforcement collaboration options recommended by a study committee.
The Jay board voted on a motion by Selectwoman Lee Ann Dalessandro to ask Wilton to enter a contract under which Jay would provide police services for both towns while the two communities work out how to form a quasi‑municipal corporation to merge their departments.
“They (Wilton) could pay us and come under our umbrella,” she said. |
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Wilton Police using AI to generate reports with software developed by 19-year-old tech CEO
Last year, MIT dropout George Cheng began emailing police departments across the country with a sales pitch. His startup had developed new AI software that promised to save officers thousands of hours of paperwork every year.
If they would upload their body camera footage into his program, it could generate draft police reports in minutes.
In the small Franklin County town of Wilton, Police Chief Ethan Kyes was one of the first to take him up on the offer.
Now used by about half of Wilton’s officers as part of a pilot, Kyes said the system has helped the understaffed department catch up on its heavy case load. But researchers, civil rights groups and prosecutors, including the DA covering Franklin County, have raised concerns about the technology’s accuracy.
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