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Funding Sources and Cost Sharing Stop! If you are currently working on or planning to move forward with sharing data in your region, take a mo- ment to pause and ensure you are thinking about adopting a regional data warehouse methodology. Contact your regional partners to discuss this option. Decide if a data warehouse could provide your stakeholders with savings and flexibility moving forward. SHSGP, COPS and JAG funds are available annually. Begin now to apply for those funds in support of your project. How Can We Help? committees and sub-committees. Sending staff members who do not understand or do not have the same goals will be counterproductive and only interfere with your imple- mentation goals and timeframe. Assign staff who are your “can-do” progressive and positive employees and can meet timelines to make things happen. For successful implemen- tation you must include IT experts, Support Staff members and Managers from your agencies. Let’s work toward a goal of agencies joining a regional data sharing warehouse by the year 2020. For additional information, contact one of the above data ware- house groups for technical questions, or Sub-Committee Chair Representative Sandy Maraviov, Support Services Manager for the Citrus Heights Police Department at 916-727-5557, [email protected], or Greg Park, City of Livermore IT Manager 925-371-4913, [email protected] ■ By the end of the year, the subcommittee is working to share with California Law Enforcement agencies ge- neric copies of MOUs or JPAs, and their associated cost sharing models that are currently in use. The use of these documents can be introduced to your region and provide a simple starting point. The subcommittee is also working to distribute a sample data warehouse data schema standard to work toward ensuring our data is as compatible as possible across At LCW we appreciate the state. the emergency nature For agencies who may utilize a of legal issues in the vendor to assist with developing a public safety context. regional data warehouse, the sub- For nearly 40 years, we have had the committee is also drafting a white privilege of being paper to share best practices for trusted advisors to law entering into a contract with a ven- enforcement agencies. dor. The goal with this document California police is for California Law Enforcement departments serve agencies to hold the same contract others, and we are standards for all vendors, enabling honored to serve them in all areas of law, us to have a stronger negotiation including: position on what we will and will not accept during the negotiation • Employment Law phase. We are the customer, and it • POBR is important for vendors to recog- • Litigation • Labor Relations nize what California expects when • Discipline signing up to become a business • Investigations partner. • Pitchess Motions What’s Next? • Retirement • Use of Force Issues Agencies must first select the • Preventative right people to be at the table Training for your regional data sharing A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” - John Maxwell You serve others and LCW is honored to serve you. www. LCWLEGAL .com WINTER 2017 | California Police Chief 15