Ellensburg approves Peregrine public-safety software; officials emphasize CJIS compliance and local QA

The Ellensburg City Council authorized the city manager on Feb. 2 to sign an order form for the Peregrine public-safety software platform after a presentation by Captain Cameron Clayson and Mac Larkin, a senior account executive at Peregrine.

Peregrine is a data-integration platform designed to connect records management, dispatch and digital-evidence systems and present unified search results and dashboards. Mac Larkin told the council the company operates in multiple states and serves agencies of varying sizes. Larkin emphasized the product’s CJIS-compliant deployment for an agency’s closed instance and said the system "does not create any new records," instead pointing users back to the originating source records.

Council members asked about the platform’s handling of records requests and the AI component. Larkin said Peregrine helps locate and unify source records to speed public-records responses and that integration of the city’s Flock camera system was not part of the current scope. Regarding AI, Larkin said customers can choose whether to enable machine-learning features and that an agency power user will perform quality assurance checks when AI is used.

Resident Dave Sturgill asked whether the city or Peregrine would supply the power user for AI QA; Larkin said the power user would be an Ellensburg Police Department representative.

After questions from council about efficiency gains and validation, a motion to authorize the city manager to sign the order form passed by voice vote.

Next steps: staff will execute the order form and schedule implementation and QA procedures with Ellensburg Police Department staff and Peregrine’s implementation team.