York County OKs purchase of law-enforcement analytics platform using asset-forfeiture funds

York County’s Board of Supervisors on Sept. 16 approved a contract to buy a law-enforcement analytics platform intended to consolidate data from report-management, CAD, body-worn and in-car cameras and other sources.

Sheriff Montgomery told the board the software can “sit down on top of all of these silos of information and pull all of this data together rather quickly,” which he said would shorten investigators’ time to find relevant records from days to seconds. The county voted to approve the item as part of the consent calendar.

The sheriff’s presentation described the product as an integrative layer that will connect the county’s older and newer record systems, Flock camera feeds, Axon body-worn camera footage and Motorola (RMS/CAD) data. Montgomery said the system has reduced crime-solving timelines in other agencies and would allow deputies and investigators to search a single interface for a person or incident.

Board members asked about contract length, interface development and funding. Montgomery said the purchase is a multi-year contract (the discussion described it as a three-year agreement) and that professional services to develop interfaces are included in the vendor arrangement. County staff and the sheriff confirmed the county has sufficient asset-forfeiture funds and that the purchase would draw from that fund. The figure discussed during the meeting was $340,000 (discussed in the meeting as the multi-year cost), and staff said the amount was available in asset-forfeiture accounts.

Montgomery also framed this as a first-phase implementation: pulling historic records and newer systems into the platform could be completed in roughly 60–90 days, while fuller integration (including future modules such as live 9-1-1 interfacing) could take months to a year.

The item was folded into the consent calendar (consent calendar motion made by Supervisor Shepherd) and the board approved the consent calendar by roll call. The roll call approving the consent calendar recorded “Yes” votes from Supervisors Holroyd, Drury, Roan, Shepherd and Chair Noll.

The board did not hold a separate roll-call vote on the analytics platform item because it was part of the consent calendar that passed unanimously. Implementation and any further interface work will be managed by the sheriff’s office in coordination with the vendor and county IT staff.

Sheriff Montgomery: “If we were working a crime and Mister Steven Roan was the suspect, we could type his name into the search engine ... and all of those places ... would be pulled together in one specific place very quickly so investigators and deputies ... will have all of this information available within a matter of seconds as opposed to sometimes days.”

The board recorded the consent-calendar motion and vote; the consent calendar included several other items and passed without roll-call opposition.

Next steps: vendor onboarding and initial data integration; the sheriff estimated the initial portion could be completed within 60–90 days with broader implementation possibly requiring up to a year.