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Garden City approves $650,498 lease to replace police and fire radios to meet DOJ encryption mandate
Summary
Council approved a 7-year lease-to-own agreement with Motorola for encrypted public safety radios, with estimated annual payments of $90,356.86 and a total not-to-exceed cost of $650,498.20; funding will be appropriated from the federal forfeiture fund.
Garden City's City Council on March 23 approved a lease-to-own agreement with Motorola Solutions to replace the city's public safety radios and meet a Department of Justice encryption mandate with an October 2026 deadline.
Police Chief Arnoski told council that the DOJ-mandated encryption requirement for radios used with the criminal justice information system leaves the city with limited options and no dedicated federal funding. "They haven't offered us any financial relief or anything, so we've been…
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