Council committees on Monday advanced a resolution authorizing the mayor and the director of public safety to enter into a sublicense agreement with the Pennsylvania State Police to allow public‑safety personnel to use traffic reporting software at no cost to the city.

Pat Fosnott, commander of administration for the Pittsburgh Police, described the software as a system that allows officers to input citations and crash reports directly into a state system from officers' vehicles. "When the officer inputs it, it validates it and sends it directly to the courts," Fosnott said, noting the system reduces manual entry and associated errors.

The department said a secondary benefit is compliance with Act 18 of 2024, which requires municipalities to report traffic‑stop data to the state police. Under the current manual process, staff extract data from local systems and upload spreadsheets; the sublicense would automate that flow. The state police are sublicensing the software to multiple municipalities at no cost, officials said.

Council members asked whether the shared data could be used for immigration enforcement; department and law‑department staff said the software replaces a manual transmission to the state police and that the system meets city needs. Councilwoman Warwick and others emphasized the value of more granular traffic‑stop and crash data to inform Vision Zero safety work and asked that the department share analytics and dashboards with council once the system is in use.

The committee gave an affirmative recommendation for Bill 24‑07.