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Open Source In State and Local Government
The Background
• LEADR: Law Enforcement Automated Data Replicator
• Large scale data collection and query tool• Installed in 3 states
Background
• The project started in the low country of South Carolina in 3 counties.
• There were 3 sheriff’s offices and 3 police departments initially installed.
• Many police departments share common Records Management Systems (RMS)
• Initial system installed was a closed source system.
The Switch to Open Source
• In 2003 grants were obtained to expand the system to 21 Agencies
• Quotes were given by the closed source vendor for a full license cost for each agency, even though they had already developed the adapter for a given RMS.
• A decision was made to Open Source and pay for the adapter development once, and do an install on common system.
Goals of the Open Source Project
• No additional cost to agencies after development.
• Use common technologies and data standards
• Make the software freely available to Law Enforcement agencies.
• Use open source and open data standards
• User and Operations manuals provided to customers
The Move to the State level
• During the 2nd phase of the data sharing project SLED wanted to pick the project up and move it to a state wide level.
• Within 1 year 175 agencies were brought into the system by publishing open data standards and communication protocols to RMS vendors.
• A joint effort between agencies and multiple companies brought everything on board quickly.
• The total cost of the project was $6.5 Million dollars
Advantages of Open Source and the Next State
• After the success of South Carolina, Tennessee wanted to implement LEADR
• Project goals– Bring in 250 agencies in the
first phase of the project.– Replace DB IV based RMS fat
client with open sourced webRMS system.
• Project was completed on time using the exiting code base at a cost of $750k
Conclusion
• Moving to open and non-licensed based software has saved the state millions of dollars in cost.
• SC spends on average $5k on support and maintenance.
• Same philosophy applied to License Plate Reader Warehouse (4 Installations)
• No cost to update the system to latest versions of the software
• State money is spent on features, not licenses.
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