The Nye County Sheriff’s Office will be announcing the testing and possible deployment of Weapon-Mounted Cameras (WMCs) at 9:00 a.m. Wednesday, January 23 at a news conference hosted by Viridian Weapon Technologies at The Venetian in Las Vegas. Sheriff Sharon Wehrly and officials from Minnesota-based Viridian will give a short news conference on the impact of the new technology.

The Nye County Sheriff’s office patrols the third-largest county in the nation and joins over 400 other agencies—including Las Vegas Metro Police—that have used the FACT Duty Weapon-Mounted Camera. These WMCs record automatically, provide an unobstructed view of critical use-of-force events from the end of the firearm and generate significantly less data than body cameras.

Event Specifics

Wednesday, January 23 at 9:00 a.m.

The Venetian Ballroom

Delfino 4001

3355 S Las Vegas Blvd

Las Vegas, NV 8910

More information, including sample video and access to Nye County and Viridian personnel for comment, is available before or after the news conference by contacting Tim Brandt at tim.brandt@murrayroadagency.com.