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Commission approves no‑cost MOU for remote police workstation at Fargo Shields facility after questions about selection process

5714781 · August 19, 2025
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The Fargo City Commission approved a memorandum of understanding (MOU) giving the police department no‑cost access to a remote workstation at the Fargo Shields retail facility; some commissioners questioned whether the city had publicly solicited other offers and expressed concern about perceived preferential treatment.

The Fargo City Commission on Aug. 4 approved a no‑cost memorandum of understanding allowing the Fargo Police Department to use a remote workstation inside the Fargo Shields facility on the city’s south side as an interim remote work location. Police leadership and staff said the city lost a prior remote site and had searched for a secure space close to officers’ beats; Shields offered a refurbished area in a retail location on 40 Fifth Street South and the department negotiated…

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