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Committee recommends police evidence storage upgrade after staff negotiates lower quote
Summary
Staff presented a police evidence storage array to meet CJIS separation and body-camera retention needs; the cover memo listed $44,002.59 (including three years of maintenance) and the presenter said he later negotiated a lower quote before finalizing the agenda packet.
The Finance and Taxation Committee voted to forward a recommendation to council for a police department storage array and associated network work intended to segregate criminal-justice data under CJIS requirements. Staff said the cover memo showed a price of $44,002.59 including three years of maintenance but that he had called the vendor and "got it down" before finalizing the packet.
Staff detailed evidentiary and technical reasons for the upgrade: body-camera footage has greatly increased storage needs, evidence data must be preserved to demonstrate it was not altered, and retention requirements include seven-year storage for certain evidentiary records. The presenter said backups occur frequently ("every 15" minutes for new data), nightly copies are written to an offsite fireproof array and tapes are stored in a vault. "The price was $44,002.59 and include 3 years of maintenance," the Staff member said; later he said, "I got it down to $38.03 37." The committee voted unanimously to recommend the purchase to council.
