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AGENCY TESTIMONY
Urgent need for technological upgrades and infrastructure improvements
4:54:43
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Gonzalez emphasizes the critical need for investments in technology, staffing, and secure off-site data storage to effectively combat modern crimes, particularly cybercrimes. He highlights the current inadequacies in their infrastructure.
- Requests funding for technology, staffing, and secure off-site data storage
- Describes the current data storage center as outdated and inadequate
- Emphasizes that data storage needs have quadrupled due to increased discovery obligations and video evidence
- Stresses the importance of modernizing infrastructure to fight '21st-century crime'
Eric Gonzalez
4:54:43
But to do that, we need investments in technology, staffing, and secure off-site data storage.
4:54:52
In my written testimony, there's an image of the data storage center in my office.
4:54:58
It's old.
4:54:59
It's overheating, and we actually, no joke, cool it with a box fan.
4:55:04
We're asking for funding for a safe and secure off-site data storage that many other city agencies use.
4:55:13
The DAs have already told you that with the increase in discovery obligations and body cams and surveillance video, our data storage needs have more than quadrupled over the last couple of years.
4:55:26
We cannot fight twenty first century crime with a twentieth century infrastructure.