Enterprise council authorizes police to join Biometrica and NICB data-sharing programs

The Enterprise City Council voted Jan. 21 to authorize the police chief to execute no-cost user agreements with Biometrica Systems Incorporated and the National Insurance Crime Bureau, Mayor Cooper announced during the regular meeting.

Police Chief Moore described both programs as tools to help investigators access publicly available records — mugshots, arrest information, warrants and insurance-claim data — aggregated across participating agencies. "It's just another tool for us to use in conjunction with other law enforcement agents," Chief Moore said.

City staff and legal review noted the agreements would provide the department with user licenses (two licenses in the Biometrica agreement) in exchange for sharing public records the department already maintains; officials said juvenile records would remain confidential and that the systems use human verification steps before prompting enforcement action. Ashley (last name not specified in the meeting record) reviewed the contracts and told the council that the data sources are public records, while also acknowledging record-retention and access questions that the chief could address in further detail.

Council members asked whether the systems would produce general surveillance data like license-plate reader networks; staff distinguished the Biometrica/NICB agreements as records-sharing tools tied to law-enforcement contact rather than continuous public-places collection. After brief discussion, the council voted to authorize the agreements. Chief Moore and city staff said the agreements carry no direct cost to the city.