Chicago's contract with ShotSpotter, a gunshot detection system, was set to end, sparking negotiations for an extension. The city agreed to extend the contract through September 22, 2024, with an additional two-month transition period. Mayor Brandon Johnson's office negotiated the nearly $49 million contract with ShotSpotter's parent company, SoundThinking, to allow the Chicago Police Department to continue using the technology.
Mayor Brandon Johnson reveals the 7mo extension + 2mo transition period for ShotSpotter before contract is not renewed will cost roughly $8M https://t.co/YrPjHGKvfS
The city signed a ShotSpotter contract extension through September. https://t.co/OgEfJGQZck https://t.co/gBNbUBQZYd
It is unclear how much Chicago will pay ShotSpotter for the use of its technology in the coming months, whether the contract extension will be presented to the City Council or what would take place in the transition period from September to December. @wttw https://t.co/j7r6XbHCLn
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office hammered out a renewal to the nearly $49 million contract with ShotSpotter’s parent company, SoundThinking, to allow the police department to continue using the technology through Sept. 22. https://t.co/bPk77gHbAv
The ShotSpotter gunshot detection system will remain in use in Chicago into next fall after city officials and the company's operator agreed to a 7-month extension “followed by a two-month transition period” late Friday. https://t.co/KoNUwl2W7J
Seven months plus two months more for ShotSpotter in Chicago. The city will end up paying the company for those two extra draw down months @ChicagosMayor didn’t want, after he announced the seven-month deal before the company agreed to it. https://t.co/5qH4Fo2Gp6
After calling the anti-crime program ShotSpotter “racist,” Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson asked the company to extend its contract beyond the upcoming Democratic Convention. https://t.co/RTu5wDGiNz
The City of Chicago and SoundThinking, the company behind the gunshot detection technology ShotSpotter, have agreed to a contract extension for the service, avoiding a possible disruption that could have started at the end of the day Friday https://t.co/GsYNy5nJGs
ShotSpotter will continue to work in Chicago through late September, the company that owns the technology said Friday. https://t.co/4vKkbf5ZPa
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City, ShotSpotter agree to keep gunshot detection technology active in Chicago through Sept. 22 https://t.co/6C5c8X6pxh https://t.co/ORvvHTfMsv
“In an effort to avoid any interruption in the ShotSpotter service, the City of Chicago has signed an agreement with SoundThinking, Inc. for a contract extension through September 22, 2024, followed by a two-month transition period,” per a release from the city (w/o cost info) https://t.co/McclDFZNkr
Hours before Chicago’s contract with ShotSpotter expired, Mayor Brandon Johnson announced he reached an agreement that will allow CPD to continue using the controversial gunshot detection system until September. https://t.co/vxfLRAITcf
ShotSpotter extended as company and Johnson reach agreement @JakeSheridan_ https://t.co/uUgf7qqrT9
Who’s satisfied after all this? If you truly think ShotSpotter is ineffective and a waste, why extend the contract at all? If the service has sufficient merit as to warrant its deployment through the summer, then why agree to a predetermined termination date? Inconsistent logic. https://t.co/x79i2PGXjw
ShotSpotter will remain in use in Chicago into next fall after city officials and the company's operator agreed to a contract extension late Friday. https://t.co/vRNkJIYJau
City, SoundThinking agree to ShotSpotter contract extension through Sept. 2024 https://t.co/9ONykAYetM
BREAKING: Chicago and SoundThinking have reached an agreement to extend ShotSpotter. ShotSpotter will continue to operate until Sept 22 and Mayor Brandon Johnson said it would on Tuesday, "with an additional 2-month transition period to follow." The company will track data too. https://t.co/Utrq6LLECO
The short-term future of the ShotSpotter gunshot detection system remained in limbo Friday as its operators and the city reportedly tried to work out an extension to keep the police technology running through the weekend and on through the summer. https://t.co/C8tXxwaqfP
BREAKING: ShotSpotter will not be turned off this weekend as Chicago agrees to last-minute extension, sources say https://t.co/uiGkc44RG2
The former Chicago police superintendent who brought ShotSpotter to the city in 2017 is speaking out about Mayor Brandon Johnson's decision not to renew a contract for the CPD technology. https://t.co/W4MoRaVcQa
Will ShotSpotter stay through the summer? The mayor won’t say as the contract expires Friday. https://t.co/dLgriDPg9Z https://t.co/cbfRsL6AAu
Sources say Shot Spotter will not turn off tonight. Negotiated a 7 month extension - with perhaps room for more time - “to wind down”
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office is now hammering out a last-minute renewal to the nearly $49 million contract with ShotSpotter’s parent company, SoundThinking, a source familiar with the negotiations tells @TomSchuba. https://t.co/YTeZpdBdIc
Chicago’s contract with ShotSpotter is set to end at midnight. What will happen next? Will the city negotiate an extension with parent company SoundThinking? How long could that be for? We have the latest on @WGNNews at 4:30 and 6 as we await any possible word from city hall.
NEW: The Chicago Police Department won’t lose access to the controversial ShotSpotter gunshot detection system when the current contract expires at the end of Friday, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned. https://t.co/PvKHdh0R4C