Case Study: Maricopa County Sheriff's Office achieves real-time HD surveillance, 60-day retention and 100% coverage with DataDirect Networks

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office Is Nationally Recognized For Its Zero

Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, the nation’s third-largest sheriff’s department with 7,500–10,000 inmates and one of the most-visited law enforcement websites, faced an aging, tape‑based video system that was unreliable and slow. The legacy platform could take as long as 60 days to retrieve a month of footage, lacked alerts, and could not scale to capture petabytes of HD data from thousands of IP cameras across multiple facilities.

The county deployed a fully integrated solution—Genetec VMS, Bosch HD cameras, Sierra Detention Systems integration and DDN Storage Fusion Architecture—to replace disparate systems with a single, redundant platform. The rollout delivered more than 3,000 cameras, 15 fps HD recording with 60‑day retention, 100% coverage across six facilities, retrieval speeds 10× faster (e.g., 12 hours of HD in 17 minutes), scalable storage up to 30 PB, reduced litigation costs and improved PREA compliance.

Maricopa County Sheriff's Office

Brandon Jones

Public Information Officer & Project Lead Designer