After Richland jettisoned Flock cameras and contracted with Axon for replacements, the city also added another camera supplier — LTV. Those cameras, some portable and some fixed, have been erected in Richland with little public notice.
Without any public discussion, Richland quietly adopted the LTV cameras.
Richland city manager Jon Amundson used his authority to obtain the LTV cameras without a public vote of the city council. Then the city council extended the contract through a budget appropriation amendment.
“The original LVT contract was signed in June 2025,” Richland City Manager Jon Amundson wrote in an email to the Observer. That contract was for $133,000. He pointed out that the figure was well within his authority to approve acquisitions of materials, supplies, or equipment costing $500,000 or less under RMC 3.04.050(B).
On June 16, 2026, in a consent calendar item that received no discussion and no separate vote, an item described in the 4th paragraph of the staff report as “City’s security trailer program,” extended the LTV contract until 2027 and expanded the number of cameras. There are now eight.
LTV advertises its cameras as having “advanced clarity and detail.”
LTV promotes its cameras as having “advanced clarity and detail” even through rain and fog. According to Amundson, while a license plate could be visible in the video, the cameras function like conventional security cameras and not like license plate readers. The videos will be available for 30 days while state law now requires that data from license plate readers be deleted after 21 days.
According to Amundson, the cameras are intentionally visible because they are mainly a deterrent.
“The best outcome isn’t good video of someone damaging a park; it’s that the damage never happens,” Amundson wrote the Observer.
Current locations of the three trailer mounted LTV cameras in Richland:
1200 Jadwin
Columbia Point Marina
Locations of the five pole or building-mounted cameras in Richland
Claybell Park
Jeannette Taylor Skate Park
Uptown Shopping Center (Jadwin Ave).
Pasco and Ben Franklin Transit have also installed LTV cameras.
Pasco City Council approved their park cameras at their Sept 8 meeting. According to the Tri-City Herald, in 2027 Pasco will install four fixed cameras and one mobile one.
Ben Franklin Transit’s 2024-2030 Transit Development Plan’s 2026 safety priorities included “Utilizing telematics, camera systems and safety performance monitor proactive. Cameras are in most Ben Franklin transfer stations according to a supervisor at the Knight Street transit station in Richland.
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