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Committee forwards citywide text- and social-media archiving contract to improve public-records compliance
Summary
IT staff proposed consolidating text-message and social-media archiving under Smarsh for about 395 city lines at an estimated $42,000/year. The committee agreed to forward the contract to the April 7 consent agenda; staff said the change will speed responses to public-records requests but will raise annual archiving costs over a police-only contract.
The committee voted to forward a proposed citywide archiving contract with Smarsh Professional Archive to the April 7 consent agenda after staff explained the system will capture city-issued phone text messages and consolidate social-media archiving into a single searchable platform.
Thomas, presenting IT materials, said the consolidated Smarsh contract "will cost the city $42,000 a year all in" and noted that the city…
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