What: A one-year, $129,500 service agreement for a public safety data and analytics platform for the Police Department, paid from opioid settlement funds, with a 3 percent annual escalator if renewed.
Where it stands: Reviewed in the Council Finance Committee on 2026-11-09 and approved on the consent bid resolution PCR-119-26 (9-0). A councilor asked the solicitor for an ordinance setting limits on the technology, and a Ward 5 councilor docketed an ordinance on regulations for public safety data integration and analytics platforms.
Next: The ordinance is expected to come back at a later Council meeting.
Details
The platform links existing police records, evidence and policy systems into one searchable tool; the department's stated primary purpose is opioid response outreach, overdose tracking and follow-up.
Councilors questioned the sole-source justification, the length of the contract, the funding source after the first year, and whether license plate camera data could ever be connected. The department said that connection was left out of the contract and the vendor representative said it could also be written into the contract.
The remaining opioid settlement balance was given as just under $880,000.