Case Study: City of Dothan achieves secure, scalable digital evidence storage with Wasabi and Nasuni

City of Dothan Fights Crimes with Digital Evidence Storage Solution from Wasabi and Nasuni

The City of Dothan IT Department needed a versatile, affordable digital evidence storage solution that could scale to support police officers, investigators, judges, and attorneys while meeting strict chain-of-custody, compliance, and budget requirements. After finding no off-the-shelf option that could store evidence from all sources—body cams, cell phone photos, scanned documents, surveillance video, and more—the city turned to Wasabi Technologies and Nasuni.

Using Wasabi hot cloud storage with Nasuni file-sharing software, the City of Dothan built a secure, auditable digital evidence system with both hot and cold storage tiers, daily and weekly backups, and no egress or API fees. The result was a first-of-its-kind solution that improved scalability, transparency, and budget predictability, while enabling the city to store about 200 TB of data, retain evidence for years or indefinitely when needed, and retrieve files quickly without extra transaction costs.

City of Dothan

Davis Hart

Senior Systems Analyst