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MOTION TO APPROVE A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE SHERIFF OF PINELLAS COUNTY FLORIDA AND THE PEMBROKE PINES POLICE DEPARTMENT ESTABLISHING A RELATIONSHIP WHICH WILL GRANT ACCESS TO FLORIDA’S FACIAL RECOGNITION NETWORK (FR-NET), HOSTED BY THE PINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFF.
Summary Explanation and Background
SUMMARY EXPLANATION AND BACKGROUND:
1. The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office maintains the largest collaborative open model Face Recognition System in the U.S. and exclusively hosts Florida’s Facial Recognition Network (FR-Net).
2. FR-Net provides facial biometric search capabilities, subject information, face image comparison tools, training for FR search, and face image analysis methods and best practices via CJNET to authorized Florida law enforcement agencies.
3. The Sheriff will grant access and make information available through the Face Analysis Comparison & Examination System (FACES)
4. This Memorandum of Understanding has been approved to legal form by the Police Legal Advisor.
5. Recommend approval of the agreement.
Financial Impact
FINANCIAL IMPACT DETAIL:
a) Initial Cost: None
b) Amount budgeted for this item in Account No: Not Applicable
c) Source of funding for difference, if not fully budgeted: Not Applicable
d) 5 year projection of the operational cost of the project: Not Applicable
e) Detail of additional staff requirements: Not Applicable