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Franklin commission weighs renaming IT department to include security amid concerns about scope and staffing
Summary
Franklin's Technology Commission debated formally adding security to the city's Information Services/IT department name and charter, with the director of IT arguing audits and a 2024 breach show the need for centralized oversight while commissioners raised staffing, budget and responsibility concerns. The item was tabled for further work.
Chair Greg Strach called the Franklin City Technology Commission to order on Feb. 25 and the panel spent the majority of the meeting debating whether to change the city's Information Services/IT department name and scope to formally include security functions.
Richard Metalski, director of IT for the City of Franklin, outlined the case for a name and scope change, saying many security responsibilities are already being performed by IT but are not formally recognized. "We're doing it, but it's not in our scope of services," Metalski said, pointing to decentralized physical- and information-security functions, audits and an incident in 2024 that required forensic review of 2 to 2.5 terabytes of data.
Why it matters: Metalski told the commission that the expanded…
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