Agency to be responsible for all expenses except electricity, which county will provide
As one of its final, formal actions of 2025, the Sarasota County Commission unanimously approved an interlocal agreement crafted to facilitate Sheriff Office personnel’s ability to read license plates on vehicles in the county.
The proposal was part of the board’s Consent Agenda of routine business matters during its regular meeting on Dec. 16, 2025.
A county staff memo included in the agenda packet for that meeting explained that a representative of the Sheriff’s Office had contacted the county’s Transportation Department to request that the Sheriff’s Office be able to install and use automatic license plate readers (ALPR) and camera system hardware “on County and state-owned traffic signal poles that are maintained by Sarasota County” through an agreement with the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT)…