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You are here: Home / FEATURED POSTS / HCSO Suffers Dash Cam Video Data Loss

HCSO Suffers Dash Cam Video Data Loss

March 1, 2020 By Dick Cook and Contributed Article 0 Comments

On Saturday, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reported that the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office suffered a catastrophic data loss relating to dash cam video storage.

The report states that all dash cam footage from the entire fleet of 130 patrol vehicles from Oct. 25, 2018 to Jan. 23, 2020 was lost as a result of a software failure on Jan. 13.

The following is a press release from the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office:

 In January 2020, Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office Networking Specialists were performing routine maintenance on in-house servers and observed slowness when restarting the server processing in-car videos.  Upon internal research and consultation with operating and backup software manufacturers, it was determined that an abnormal number of backup snapshots had accumulated on the server.  Under the direction of the manufacturer of the software we initiated a consolidation process that did not correct the issue.

HCSO Networking Specialists worked with the manufacturers of the software in use and ultimately identified and sent the data drives to a company that specializes in recovery. Recovery was unsuccessful.  HCSO Networking Specialists simultaneously stood up a new server so that in car cameras could resume the process of uploading data.

The uploaded data impacted in the loss began with data uploaded on October 25th, 2018 through January 23rd, 2020.

Sheriff Jim Hammond immediately notified the Hamilton District Attorney’s Office and the Hamilton County Mayor’s Office once the loss of data was confirmed.

The HCSO began seriously looking into implementing body cameras and ultimately moving in car camera video storage to leased cloud-based storage in April 2019. This data loss event speeds up the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office’s plans to ask for additional funding to implement the body cameras and to also include in-car cameras to expedite the move to cloud-based storage.

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About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.

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