AZ SB1293: GIITEM subaccount; predictive policing technology

In one paragraph

Vetoed. Arizona's SB 1293 (2015) would have appropriated $1,150,000 from the concealed weapons permit fund in fiscal year 2015-2016 to the Department of Administration for block grants to city police agencies for a pilot program to buy and maintain predictive policing technology software: software that generates crime predictions by applying mathematical algorithms and criminal behavior theory to past crime data and recalibrates automatically. It also directed GIITEM border security subaccount money to county sheriffs. The Governor vetoed it April 13, 2015.

Plain-English summary, written with AI assistance. The official text controls.

What it means for business

None: the bill was vetoed and never became law. It would have funded city police purchases of predictive policing software from vendors chosen by the Department of Administration through an emergency procurement.

Key provisions

1. 1$1,150,000 from the concealed weapons permit fund in FY 2015-2016 to the Department of Administration for block grants to police agencies in specified cities (each capped at the city's proportional population share) for a predictive policing software pilot; leftover money for other municipal agencies that request it
2. 2The Department of Administration would have made an emergency procurement to select one or more software vendors, and the grants would be used with those vendors
3. 3Predictive policing technology software: uses predictive capabilities based on historical data, current crime patterns and forward mathematical modeling; generates predictions by applying mathematical algorithms and criminal behavior theory to large data sets of past crime data; automatically recalibrates when new crime information is added
4. 4The software could not use personally identifiable information to create predictions, had to customize predictions by location, time of day and crime type, be web-accessed and cloud-hosted, and have references from at least five law enforcement agencies
5. 5Each agency receiving money would have reported to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee by December 31, 2015 and June 30, 2016 on the pilot's status, spending and the software's effectiveness
6. 6Separately, the Department of Public Safety would have distributed $1,858,500 of the FY 2015-2016 GIITEM border security and law enforcement subaccount to 15 county sheriffs and submitted the subaccount's expenditure plan to the committee for review
7. 7Final Senate passage April 2, 2015 (17-13, without the emergency clause); vetoed April 13, 2015

Latest legislative action

Apr 13, 2015. Vetoed by Governor

Sponsors (showing 5 of 23)

Amendments (5)

• SENATE PROPOSED AMENDMENT: Public Safety, Military and Technology Not adopted 2015-02-03
• SENATE ADOPTED AMENDMENT: Public Safety, Military and Technology Adopted 2015-02-03
• SENATE ADOPTED AMENDMENT: Smith flr amend (ref Bill) adopted Adopted 2015-02-25
• HOUSE PROPOSED AMENDMENT: Appropriations Not adopted
• HOUSE ADOPTED AMENDMENT: Appropriations Adopted 2015-03-25