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a. Approve and Authorize the County Administrative Officer to sign an Inter-Agency Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the South Bay Information Sharing System (SBISS) South Bay Regional Node and the County of Monterey, Sheriff's Office; and
b. Authorize the County Administrative Officer to sign additional amendments to the SBISS Interagency MOU where the amendments do not significantly change the scope of work and do not exceed the current annual cost of the agreement ($17,001.84) by more than ten percent (10%) or $1700.18, for an annual cost of $18,702.02 to the Sheriff's Office.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended the Board of Supervisors:
a. Approve and Authorize the County Administrative Officer to sign an Inter-Agency Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the South Bay Information Sharing System (SBISS) South Bay Regional Node and the County of Monterey, Sheriff's Office.
b. Authorize the County Administrative Officer to sign additional amendments to the SBISS Interagency MOU where the amendments do not significantly change the scope of work and do not exceed the current annual cost of the agreement ($17,001.84) by more than ten percent (10%) or $1,700.18, for an annual cost of $18,702.02 to the Sheriff's Office.
DISCUSSION:
In Fiscal Year 2010, the Office of Homeland Security allocated funds to secure hardware and software for participating member agencies of the South Bay Information Sharing System (SBISS), South Bay Regional Node, for the purpose of sharing criminal justice data utilizing a software application known as "COPLINK". Member agencies in the jurisdictional boundaries of the County of Monterey who are part of the network sign this MOU. Active data sharing began after the network was fully operational (2013) and criminal justice data is now being shared between Santa Clara, San Benito, Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties. The Santa Clara County Office of the Sheriff serves as lead agency for SBISS and handles all fu...
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