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Council approves data-sharing agreement with Peregrine despite indemnity concerns
Summary
Redondo Beach approved a memorandum to join a Peregrine Technologies data-exchange platform to share law enforcement data with other agencies, while staff and the city attorney flagged remaining risks: lack of indemnity from other agencies, 30-day data retention rules and reliance on CJIS compliance and audit logs to detect misuse.
The Redondo Beach City Council on June 10 voted to approve a data-sharing agreement with Peregrine Technologies to permit other law enforcement agencies to query integrated police data (license-plate readers, records management, body camera metadata) through a shared platform.
Staff described the platform as an upgrade from older teletype-style information exchanges. Captain Jeff Mendence, who led the department’s briefing, said Peregrine “takes that same system, those requests, and puts it into this platform where you're sharing data,” enabling faster searches across agencies. IT Director Mike Cook told the council Peregrine and participating agencies must meet federal Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) security standards: “As a law enforcement agency here at Redondo, we…
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