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Joliet council approves Peregrine public-safety data platform after demo; city staff and vendor cite CJIS compliance

City of Joliet City Council · February 17, 2026

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Summary

After a brief demonstration, the Joliet City Council approved a five-year contract with Peregrine Technologies to consolidate public-safety data. Officials and the vendor emphasized CJIS compliance and agency ownership of data; staff estimated the contract will average about $200,000 per year over five years.

The Joliet City Council voted to award a contract to Peregrine Technologies for a public-safety data integration platform following a short demonstration and Q&A on Feb. 17.

Paul Begoda, a public-safety executive for Peregrine, walked the council through a demonstration showing the company's software combining CAD, RMS, evidence platforms and transcribed body-worn camera audio into a single searchable interface and producing dashboards for operations and officer wellness. Begoda said the demonstration used fictitious data and stressed the system's CJIS-compliant hosting in AWS GovCloud West.

"It is a CJIS-compliant demonstration platform," Begoda said during the presentation, adding that the vendor does not create or replace agency records and that the agency retains ownership of its data. He described features such as AI-generated person-history summaries and mapping tools that can speed investigative searches.

Councilmembers asked how the system would be used in the field, what agencies in Illinois are running the platform, and how data-sharing would be governed. Begoda and staff said the tool can be used at multiple levels of an agency (patrol, detectives, command staff) and that sharing between agencies would require memoranda of understanding. Begoda identified Chicago Heights as an Illinois partner and said Peregrine now serves hundreds of partner agencies nationwide.

City staff clarified the contract's cost structure during discussion. "This is roughly $200,000 a year for a five-year contract," a staff member said, seeking to correct media reporting that had suggested a single-year, million-dollar price tag.

Concerns about data use and permanence were raised; the vendor replied that Peregrine does not harvest agency data for its own use and that any interagency sharing is explicitly permissioned and governed by MOUs.

After the demonstration and council discussion, Council moved and seconded approval of council memo 128-26 to award the contract to Peregrine; the motion carried.

The council's approval authorizes staff to finalize the procurement; the contract and any governing MOUs will define operational controls, access rules and data-sharing arrangements going forward.