{"id":278028,"date":"2026-09-03T09:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T09:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/278028\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T09:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T09:10:10","slug":"city-of-erie-police-receives-federal-funding-for-technology-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/278028\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Erie Police receives federal funding for technology upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Erie City Council is moving forward with nearly $89,000 in federal funding for the City of Erie Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The funding is provided through the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Senator Laughlin to propose legislation banning AI security cameras in PA;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/senator-laughlin-to-propose-legislation-banning-ai-security-cameras-in-pa\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Senator Laughlin to propose legislation banning AI security cameras in PA\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police Chief Rick Lorah said the money will help the department replace and upgrade outdated computer equipment, technology officers rely on every day to do their jobs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Chief Lorah said federal funding like this helps police departments keep their equipment up-to-date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It&#8217;s important, it shows that the government is interested in keeping law enforcement well-equipped,&#8221; Lorah said. &#8220;Throughout the years, we&#8217;ve got some very good equipment we&#8217;re able to use for the community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The grant will now move forward for a second reading for final passage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erie City Council is moving forward with nearly $89,000 in federal funding for the City of Erie Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[116432,136,5241,138,137,116433,116431,71866],"class_list":["post-278028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-edward-byrne-memorial","tag-erie","tag-erie-city-council","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-laughlin","tag-lorah","tag-rick-lorah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}