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Durham council pauses Peregrine police data contract after public privacy concerns
Summary
After hours of public comment and council questioning, Durham City Council referred the proposed contract to adopt a Peregrine operations-management platform for the police department back to staff for further community engagement and written answers to privacy and data‑sharing questions.
Durham City Council on Oct. 23 agreed to carry the proposed contract with Peregrine Technologies back to staff after residents and council members raised concerns about privacy, cross‑agency data sharing and potential civil‑rights impacts.
The referral came after multiple in‑person and online speakers said the platform would consolidate existing police data — body camera footage, ALPR records, CAD and RMS entries, digital evidence and social media — into a single searchable environment that they feared could be used for real‑time tracking or shared with outside agencies. “This platform will consolidate data from police reports, body cameras, digital evidence, ALPRs, call records, mobile pings, and social media,” resident Rainer Usenco (identified in public…
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