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Bonner County approves sheriff's mobile app after vendor privacy statements, public raises data concerns
Summary
The board approved a one-year agreement to deploy the Idaho Sheriffs Connect app. Commissioners and members of the public asked about anonymous tips, device history, and data storage; sheriff's office supplied vendor privacy language and the prosecutor's office completed a legal review.
The Bonner County Board of Commissioners approved a one-year agreement with Idaho Sheriffs Connect to build and maintain a mobile application for the Bonner County Sheriff's Office.
Sheriff Darryl Wheeler said the first-year cost is $8,467.25 and that the expense will be split among the sheriff's patrol, jail, marine division and dispatch miscellaneous accounts. Wheeler read a vendor statement clarifying that the vendor —does not share, sell, or mine data— and that no personal data is stored by the app because it does not…
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