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Redmond seeks council OK to share Apricot outreach database with Kirkland, Bellevue
Summary
Redmond staff asked the Public Safety and Human Services Committee to place an agreement on the June 3 consent agenda that would formalize a multi-city partnership to use Apricot outreach software, prompting questions about data access, privacy protections and oversight.
Human Services Manager Brooke Buckingham asked the Public Safety and Human Services Committee on May 20 to place an agreement on the June 3 consent agenda that would let the City of Redmond host a shared Apricot homeless outreach database to be used by Redmond, Kirkland and Bellevue.
The request would establish a single license hosted by Redmond with participating cities paying a proportionate share, and would let outreach teams search a shared dataset to track clients who move between cities, Buckingham said.
The move is intended to replace the outreach team’s previous spreadsheet-based system and to improve coordination and reporting across jurisdictions, Buckingham said. “In fall of 2023, the homeless outreach team started using a new…
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