8.
PARENT COMMITTEE APPROVAL REQUIRED
8.A.
Resolution to approve the language Policy 911-005.13: DuPage Emergency Dispatch
Interoperable Radio System (DEDIR System) Command Central Aware. (PAC
Recommended for Approval: 6 Aye, 0 Nay, 0 Absent).
Member Burmeister made a motion to recommend approval to the ETS Board, seconded
by Vice Chair Clark, and Chair Selvik opened the item for discussion.
Executive Director Zerwin said there was a strong desire to move the policy forward and
get it out to the agencies and said it would likely return for further refinement. She said
the draft was originally designed for PSAPs and agency language had been added so
agencies could begin testing layers to see how they worked. Executive Director Zerwin
said the Police Focus Group had reviewed redline copies and language had been added to
allow the PAC and the Executive Director to change the form, and the layers were moved
out of the policy and into the form to allow more flexible adjustments.
Executive Director Zerwin said layer names were provided only as a baseline and said
names could be changed. She said the key issues were data security, officer and
firefighter safety, first line safety, and evidentiary, and she said the policy would still
require State’s Attorney review. Member Burmeister asked whether the Fire Focus Group
had been included and said he wanted to ensure Fire had an opportunity to review.
Executive Director Zerwin said the discussion started with the Police Focus Group and
said Fire input would follow. She said the concept involved layer security and visibility
that could differ at a Fire scene.
Vice Chair Clark asked how layers would function and whether users would have
different visibility by assignment. Executive Director Zerwin said users in the system
could be assigned access based on role and agencies would designate who could generate
internal GPS reports. She said a recent officer involved shooting highlighted why
investigators, not technical staff, should gather reports, and said Ms. Jager had
demonstrated the system to a MERIT investigator who consulted the State’s Attorney so
that evidentiary handling stayed clean and technical staff involvement was limited.
Member Fleury said MERIT would need to update its bylaws to define who collected
evidence, who stored it, and who had rights to it, and he said ASA Mark Winistorfer
would need to provide language that specified access and storage, likely with the owning
agency. Executive Director Zerwin said the system rolls over at one hundred days cycle.
Vice Chair Clark asked if the data would be subject to FOIA. Executive Director Zerwin
said it could be. Vice Chair Clark said he saw no reason it would be broadly exempt.
Member Fleury said he did not think there was any protection and said union
considerations and outside agency access could expose unrelated officer activity through
FOIA in ways that could affect sensitive investigations. Member Benjamin said the
information would not be broadly exempt and said any protection would have to come
from specific exemptions that could apply to particular cases.
Chair Selvik said the discussion raised many questions and said the issue was not simple.
Executive Director Zerwin said the draft was a baseline to test and said non substantive
