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Cowlitz County approves Granicus public‑records licensing, secures data export rights
Summary
The Cowlitz County Board of Commissioners approved a new end‑user license agreement with Granicus for public‑records intake and additional redaction licenses; the contract includes a paid data‑export provision the county says will allow it to retrieve hosted records.
The Cowlitz County Board of Commissioners on March 4 approved an end‑user license agreement with Granicus, the county’s cloud vendor for public‑records intake and redaction, and authorized related annual licensing fees.
The move gives the county a formal contract with Granicus after operating without one for months and includes a provision to extract the county’s records from Granicus on request, IT Director Travis Foschini said. “We’re contractually obligated to retain a copy of the data, and Granicus is a SaaS service, so it’s basically hosted in the cloud,” Foschini said. “In this new contract,…
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