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Customer story · Public safety · Ohio

Ashtabula County looks after a courthouse full of people.

Sheriff William Niemi’s deputies get a second set of eyes on the places they cannot see from the desk.

Staff and visiting public Courthouse blind spots Checked before it escalates Unattended items
A classical stone county courthouse behind a lawn and shade trees

The challenge

A public building, and corners nobody can watch.

A county courthouse takes in staff, jurors and members of the public every day, through spaces a deputy at a fixed post cannot see.

Blind spots by design

Hallways and corners fall outside what security staff can see from where they stand.

Better to know early

The office wanted to be able to look into something before it had a chance to escalate.

What they did

VOLT added to the courthouse cameras.

The office uses detection tuned to the situations a courthouse actually sees.

  1. Step 1

    Cover the public spaces

    Detection applied across courthouse areas used by staff and visitors.

  2. Step 2

    Pick the signals that matter

    Unattended packages, people of concern, body language that suggests trouble, and weapons.

  3. Step 3

    Let deputies check first

    Alerts give staff the chance to assess a situation before it escalates.

What changed

Deputies hear about things sooner.

Sheriff Niemi’s own examples of the system at work.

A briefcase in the hallway

VOLT flagged an item left in a hallway. Deputies checked it and quickly assessed it as non-threatening.

Accurate about the everyday

The system correctly identified a deputy adjusting his gun belt, which gave the team confidence in what it reports.

Cover in the blind spots

What impressed deputies most was detection in places not visible to security staff, before anything was apparent to the eye.

In their words

Why it mattered in Ashtabula County.

From the Sheriff’s account of the system at the county courthouse.

VOLT has significantly enhanced our ability to maintain safety for courthouse staff and the visiting public.
Sheriff William Niemi
Ashtabula County Sheriff’s Office, Ohio

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