Commissioners 5-19-26 [12:41-17:47]

Mr. Clinton, here we go. Very good. Good morning. A few meetings ago. There was a grant application put forward and you all approved it. I was actually the writer of that grant. I couldn't be here at that meeting but I had a battle where I put it forward and I appreciate your consideration and approval today. I'm just here to provide a status and update on that on the 27th of March. I received a notice from the Office of Energy Development, the State Office for this grant that they had in fact received the grant application. So we know that it's in their office. About a month later, on the 27th of April, I contacted Senator Cook's Office because this is sort of an energy-related thing and I know he's involved with utilities and asked for his support of this. So that's really the only two actions that have happened so far. No real good news but no bad news. I'm just here to provide transparency and information on where that's at and I'll be sure to be back and provide you any updates as needed. Thank you. I have a question if you have, but that's just my purpose here to provide a status. This is for a... I like to try to be a vehicle. I don't pick up trucks. I think money from the previous administration finally trickled that. That's all. Thank you. Next, that's Mr. Rall. Good morning, everyone. I'll try to give you the reader's digest here, but water's like a talk, right? So just so you understand what I'm talking about back in 2019 when I first took over as a cross here, everything was... I related to like dinosaur times. It was all a pencil on paper. I computerized our office and then how we handle evidence that we have to be into defense attorneys. And at the onset, I was able to come up with money to purchase two 30 terabyte servers, which would give us five 60 terabytes worth of storage. Sounds like a lot. At the time, sound like it'd be a lot. And over the course of the last eight years, laws have changed, requiring body camera footage by police officers. And you've got, you know, roughly with all the different departments, federal agents, and so on and so forth. That's a hundred officers in this community that are constantly given this information that has to be stored. And then once it's stored, it's got to be distributed to other departments as well. And the burden on getting that information to the defense attorneys relies solely on to the state. Within that, if you make mistakes, because you don't have enough manpower to go through everything, that information can obviously eventually be suppressed or thrown out of the case or jury trial, which has actually happened to us. It's just because officers of supplementary reports that we just didn't know existed because they never even owned this totus and every one of our departments has a different information service system. Like I said, thinking that 60 terabytes was going to be just a tremendous amount of information. I think it was about two months ago, okay, until now, it was like 58 or 59 terabytes already on that storage. And it's only going to get worse. So the last few years knowing that this was coming, I was looking at cloud-based servers specifically for law enforcement and or for prosecution offices. The cost was just so out of reach, it was anywhere from 50 to 60 thousand a year for this platform that we were wanting to utilize. This last year, we have a gathering body throughout the state that's called IPAC, the Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys Council. One thing that they've done is they bought the PCMS system, the prosecutor case management system, that allows the working platform that we have while we work with case management. So they pay for that. They also pay for our case fall, legal research through Alexis Nexus, which every attorney has to have. And with this program, they've actually entered into some kind of agreement where it saves, I want to say 20 some a thousand a year. So 25,000 a year, 26,000 a year off the cost of this program. The program, well, that I'm going to tell you about while I was to eliminate the need for me having to hire another two to three employees, because that's kind of the state of emergency that we're in with handling things.