AGENDA CAPTION:
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Consider approval of Ordinance 2017-09, on the first of two readings, amending the City’s 2016-2017 Fiscal Year Budget to include expenditures in the total sum of $9,000.00 from State Seized Asset Funds to provide funding for the purchase of a data interface between Computer Information Systems (CIS) and Taser/Axom Camera and Video System used by the Police Department; and providing an effective date.
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Meeting date: February 21, 2017 - 1st Reading
March 7, 2017 - 2nd Reading
Department: Police
Funds Required: $9,000.00
Account Number: 12055231.35015
Funds Available: $78,441.50
Account Name: State Seized Assets
CITY COUNCIL GOAL:
Provide for the Efficient and Effective Delivery of Services
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN ELEMENT(s): N/A
BACKGROUND:
The police department recently implemented a department-wide body camera program using the Axon camera as its service provider. This program will soon include in-car video systems also provided by Axon. Each video clip created by this system must be tagged with pertinent case information such as the incident number and offense type at the conclusion of the video. This data is currently being entered manually by each participating officer. This process is time consuming and can lead to errors due to manual data entry. The police department’s records management system vendor, CIS, has the capacity to write an interface to automate this process and create a data migration from the CIS incident screen into the Axon camera database. This will allow pertinent case information to be automatically populated into each video’s metadata thus freeing up employee time. The cost for this interface is $9,000.00 and is a one-time expenditure.