TO: Mayor and Commissioners
FROM: Chief Darrell Hunter, Police Department
THROUGH: Terrence R. Moore, ICMA-CM
DATE: April 7, 2026
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APPROVAL OF RESOLUTION NO. 59-26 APPROVING AN AGREEMENT WITH LEADSONLINE LLC FOR PUBLIC SAFETY SOFTWARE AS AN APPROVED CITY STANDARD
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Recommended Action:
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Motion to approve Resolution 59-26 approving an Agreement with LeadsOnline, LLC for public safety software as an approved City Standard.
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Background:
In 2020, City approved a multi-year agreement with LeadsOnline through a bid waiver for their investigative tools/software. The LeadsOnline system is utilized daily by the Investigative Unit, both the Crimes against Persons Investigators and Crimes Against Property Investigators as firearms are being pawned frequently. Pawn Shops are required to obtain copies of identification and/or fingerprints when someone sells them an item. LeadsOnline allows the Detectives to see who has pawned the items, a description and/or picture of the items, the address they provided to the shop, a copy of an ID and a photograph, and how much was paid. This is an invaluable tool in providing an investigator with possible suspect information on burglaries, thefts, as well as robberies and homicides where a pawned weapon may have been used. It is also instrumental in allowing victims to get their stolen belongings back.
LeadsOnline provides a niche capability to search pawn shops, scrap yards, and other secondhand stores for stolen items. This is the only vendor that provides this capability in this magnitude. Not only is it searched daily, but items can be saved so we can be notified retroactively if the stolen item is ever entered in a system anywhere. LeadsOnline provides a unique feature in their electronic reporting and criminal investigation system that cannot be found in any other vendors that provide similar services.
Since a multi-year agreement with this vendor has been previously a...
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