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a. Approve and authorize the Director of Emergency Communications to sign a Memorandum of Understanding between the County and the City of Salinas to reimburse the County for its purchase and maintenance of an Inform CAD Shotspotter Interface and associated equipment and services, and to establish the parties' obligations in utilizing the ShotSpotter application; and
b. Ratify actions taken by the Contracts Purchasing Officer to authorize placement of ShotSpotter sensors onto County property. (REVISED TITLE VIA SUPPLEMENTAL)
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors:
a. Approve and authorize the Director of Emergency Communications to sign a Memorandum of Understanding between the County and the City of Salinas to reimburse the County for its purchase and maintenance of an Inform CAD Shotspotter Interface and associated equipment and services, and to establish the parties' obligations in utilizing the ShotSpotter application; and
b. Ratify actions taken by the Contracts Purchasing Officer to authorize placement of ShotSpotter sensors onto County property. (REVISED VIA SUPPLEMENTAL)
SUMMARY/ DISCUSSION:
The City of Salinas has purchased the ShotSpotter application from SST, Inc. to assist with law enforcement efforts in specified areas of Salinas; this application provides notifications that shots have been fired, and where the shots were fired, in covered geographic areas. Notifications from the ShotSpotter application are delivered via SST, Inc.'s web site to licensed monitoring locations. The City of Salinas, through the Salinas Police Department, has requested that the Monterey County Emergency Communications Center (MCECC) provide the technical capability to receive ShotSpotter notifications from SST, Inc. and that it create a Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) incident record per ShotSpotter notification, as it would for any other call to the MCECC for service.
To implement the requested services, an Inform CAD ShotSpotter...
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