LOCAL SURVEILLANCE · SAVANNA, ILLINOIS

Savanna

A 2026 Illinois Appellate Court order provides recent primary evidence that Savanna Police was using body-worn cameras during a March 2025 traffic stop. The record does not establish the current vendor, fleet size, retention, or full camera inventory.

MUNICIPAL BOUNDARY

Savanna

Carroll County · Illinois
Incorporated boundary

SAVANNA POLICE

Recent documented body-camera use.

PARTIAL

Body-worn cameras

Savanna Police body-worn camera documented in a March 2025 traffic stop

A January 2026 Illinois Appellate Court order describes a March 26, 2025 Savanna Police traffic stop and states that video from Officer Joel Colon’s body-worn camera was admitted and played at the suppression hearing. This establishes operational BWC use in 2025 but does not disclose vendor, fleet size, retention, or current 2026 inventory.

PUBLIC RECORDS · FOIA

Records and official sources.

Primary government records are preferred. Where practical, NoRec keeps a local archival copy alongside the official source so citations remain auditable if a government URL later changes.

Official record 2026-01-08

People v. Siegwarth — Illinois Appellate Court order

January 2026 Illinois Appellate Court order documenting body-worn-camera video from a March 26, 2025 Savanna Police traffic stop.

Official source

UNRESOLVED

What still needs primary records.

  • Current body-camera and dash/in-car-camera vendors, models, inventory, retention, evidence storage, activation, and audit policy.
  • Any ALPR, drone/UAS, fixed public-space cameras, facial-recognition, social-media analytics, or other investigative-software use.