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Cleveland safety director extends ShotSpotter software contract for one year; council demands data and oversight
Summary
The Department of Public Safety told the council the gunshot-detection software extension cost $853,340 and covered roughly 13 square miles; council members pressed officials for effectiveness data, the legal basis used to bypass full council approval and a schedule for a competitive RFP.
Cleveland's Department of Public Safety told the City Council's Public Safety Committee on April 22 that it used a board-of-control procedure to extend the city's gunshot-detection software contract for one year at a cost of $853,340.
Director Drummond said the city first deployed the acoustic detection technology as a 3-square-mile pilot that later expanded to about 13 square miles, and that the one-year extension was intended as a stopgap to avoid lapses in coverage while the administration runs a competitive request for proposals. "We did not want to have no coverage whatsoever,"…
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