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Santa Fe approves one-year gunshot-detection contract funded by DOH grant
Summary
The Quality of Life Committee approved a one-year, $354,000 service agreement with Sound Thinking (formerly ShotSpotter) for gunshot detection and data services funded under a New Mexico Department of Health violence-prevention grant; councilors asked for public metrics and community safeguards before future funding.
The Santa Fe Quality of Life Committee voted to approve a one-year, $354,000 service agreement with Sound Thinking (formerly ShotSpotter) to provide gunshot-detection, location and forensic-support services. City staff said the purchase is a deliverable under a New Mexico Department of Health violence-prevention grant and will be used to accelerate response, improve evidence mapping and target youth and family services.
"This system does not record conversations. It's not a surveillance platform," Alfred Lures, vice president of trauma response and community engagement at Sound Thinking, told the committee, describing privacy controls the company adopted after an NYU privacy audit.
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