Commissioners 5-19-26 [22:50-27:58]

Additionally, the 60 terabytes that I've already utilized, we can upload into that system. And then I could basically just hand that system over to the county and just give it to them. It's going to save you guys quite a bit of money because when I bought that in 2019, I think I paid $60,000 for it. So that would free up some space for all the other agencies within the county. And then additionally, there are currently 18 prosecutors in the state that have already switched over to this program. I talked to the Jefferson County prosecutor and he had stated that one of their commissioners was a big IT guy and was really excited about the program. And they were able to actually pay for all of that using opioid money. So just a consideration that you guys have any left. I'd be more happy to say, hey, pick me. But I don't know the situation on that. That would be a discussion for another time. I just wanted to fight that seed. So right now, I just want permission at least enter into the five-year starting this June. And would recommend that we sign a ten-year just to lock those processes in. But I understand the reservations of making a ten-year decision. I totally get that. But the five is the minimum that I can get into this program inside. So at least that's permission for that. So do you have enough money in your budget to pay for the five-year contract to fund the five-year or not? So yes, no. We have two programs within our budget line. Pre-trial diversion and fraction deferrals. So those programs, or when people get a speeding ticket, and they qualify because there's certain things that we're like, no, you don't deserve a break. If you deserve a break, there's a program that the state legislature is coming up with to help fund the office for speeding tickets and then also for low-level crimes. So, you know, first-time shoplift, you know, if we don't think it's going to be a career thing, we'll make you go through a bunch of cognitive programming programs for the offense. And I think you paid 180 bucks or something like that is what goes back into our general budget. And that's how we buy all our paper, all our printers, and stuff like that. So, I know we're good for at least 10,000 a year just from what we have now from what we've seen in the past. Can we get to the 20,000? I don't know, but I would be asking the council to help at least fund part of that until we get it started. Just to be safe, not saying that we couldn't, but I didn't want to write it checked in because that kind of looks like a policing for profit and it's just wrong. My initial response would be, I'm glad some county has done the work to find out whether or not the opioid funds, or this is a legitimate use for the opioid funds. There's a lot of restrictions on what that money can be allocated for. And plus the fact we don't have a lot of opioid money left to be honest with you. It's court cases ever get passed through and they get put back into Indiana's funding source. We'll probably have quite a bit of money, but it's all a lot of gifts. Correct, and that suggestion was just secondary to the contrary. And before you go up saying I have got to have this, we are in dire straits between needing employees and managing this and more computer space. And this is a really valid outcome for several problems that we have, so much so that the public defender has even approved of it. We don't get a lot about anything, so that should speak volumes there. That's the rest of everything. I don't disagree with the purpose that you're doing. I'm not even sure that that's a lot of money. It doesn't seem like you can do much in IT anywhere for $20,000 a year, but I'm just not certain. Whether we have it in our funding, whether we have it in our regular budget at all to do it, and then the opioid monies are limited. And I'm not relying on any kind of opioid money. If I have to figure out a way to make this work, I'll make it work. It just has to be done with the responsibilities that were tasked with, with the burden, and a case, and giving discovered everybody, and I hate to bring it on this.