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County hears 911 upgrade update; vendors, tribal data sharing and contract separation on table
Summary
A caller providing the 911 update told commissioners that work on a joint Crow Creek–Buffalo County 911 contract has resumed but needs separate contracts for the tribal and county components and clearer rules on sharing personally identifiable call data; technical GIS work is already underway.
A caller identified in the meeting as Jason briefed Buffalo County commissioners on progress toward upgrading 911 services that would improve dispatch and location data for the Crow Creek area and adjacent county territory.
Jason said prior contracts mixed Crow Creek tribal territory and Buffalo County work in a single document and recommended separating the tribal and county agreements to respect sovereignty and apply the correct statutory language. He said the tribe’s sovereign status means some South Dakota statutes cited for county contracts do not apply to the Crow Creek tribal government and that the draft should clarify when tribal versus county or BIA rules control the release of personally identifiable 911 information.
Jason said technical tasks such as GIS addressing and boundary work are already in progress and that he is preparing to bring a revised contract draft to the county; he told commissioners he hoped a final contract could be presented by the July meeting. “I’m already working on all that stuff… I’ve already got the full GIS, the addressing points and data boundary for all of Crow Creek,” he said.
County and tribal participants agreed that active law‑enforcement requests for recordings or personally identifiable data should be routed through official law‑enforcement channels to comply with federal and state privacy rules. Commissioners thanked Jason for the update and asked staff to add the revised contract to a future agenda once legal and technical clarifications are incorporated.
Outcome: no formal contract vote at this meeting. Staff and tribal representatives plan to circulate a revised, separated set of contract documents before returning to the commission.
