With nearly a million dollars from a Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) grant, the Savannah City Council approved the purchase of drones, emergency phones and cameras at an end-of-the-year meeting.
SCAD announced the City of Savannah was the recipient of its $972,000 SERVE Community Fund grant in late-February 2025. And on Dec. 11, city council voted to use some of the funds to obtain safety equipment for the Savannah Police Department (SPD).
“We had some technology needs that our citizens were going to have to pay for to help upgrade our cameras and Flock systems,” Savannah Mayor Van Johnson said in an interview with the Savannah Morning News. “This (grant) allowed us to be able to do it without using any tax payer dollars.”…