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Council questions $2.6M DOJ monitor line, requests spending and billing records
Summary
Council members probed a large jump in the Department of Justice/consent‑decree budgetary lines — roughly $2.6 million for the federal monitor plus separate analytics contracts — and asked for a historical accounting of monitor payments and whether courts could force escrow of monitor fees.
Council members pressed city staff for details after administration budget documents showed a large increase in Department of Justice (DOJ)‑related contractual expenses, principally payments to the federal monitor and new analytics and advertising costs tied to the consent decree.
On page totals presented at the hearing, the administration identified roughly $2,636,000 for monitor-related contractual costs and another $887,000 for maintenance contracts used to provide analysis and data reporting (contractors named included Intergraph, Tyler Technologies and Benchmark). The administration also budgeted about $160,000 for advertising tied to police hiring efforts;…
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