Captain Justin: one felony‑drug search this month; outside request denied, system logged about 82,000 reads

Captain Justin reported the police department conducted one internal search tied to a felony drug‑trafficking case and denied one outside‑agency request because the subject did not meet the department's policy criteria. "We did 1 search in regards to a felony drug trafficking case and then we had 1 request from outside agency that was denied," Justin said.

Justin told the committee that long‑term projects remain on hold while staff focus on budget work and continued officer onboarding and training. He said recent device‑vendor developments had not changed retention policies. On system volume, Justin said officers recorded about 82,000 reads in the week before the meeting and that the system produced about nine hits that were not verified — often due to wrong‑state reads or character misreads. "In the week leading up to today, we were at 82,000 reads," he said. The captain described the user experience as a simple alert with a thumbnail image that officers visually confirm before any action.