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<br /> <br />City of Elk River <br />REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION <br />Agenda Section Meeting Date <br />Administration Se tember 5, 2006 <br />Item Description <br />Notice of Federal Grant Award to Police Department and <br />Authorization to Send IT Em 10 ee to Trainin <br /> <br />Item Number <br />5.2. <br /> <br />Prepared by <br />effre A. Beahen, Chief of Police <br />Reviewed by <br /> <br />Introduction <br />The Police Department has been awarded a federal grant and also has been given the chance to <br />send an IT staff person to be trained on the equipment at no charge. <br /> <br />Discussion <br />OnJuly 18, 2006, the Police Department was awarded a grant by the Office of National Drug <br />Control Policy Counterdrug Technology Assessment Center for a "Forensic Tool Kit." This <br />software/hardware combination is a complete toolkit that can be used for digital forensic <br />examination from acquisition to analysis to reporting. It will allow us to acquire the image from a <br />suspect hard drive and allow the examiner to perform a complete index of its contents. The value <br />of this grant is $12,000. (Includes software, computer, and 19" monitor) <br /> <br />On October 3 through October 7, the United States Army Electronic Proving Ground will be <br />administering the training for the Technology Transfer Program on behalf of the Office of <br />National Drug Control Policy. Because the equipment can recover passwords in Arabic, Russian <br />and Asian as well as English, the location of the training is not public, but it will be here in the <br />USA, possibly on the east coast. <br /> <br />All travel, lodging, and partial per diem costs associated with the training are covered by the U.S. <br />Government. <br /> <br />Financial Impact <br />Our only cost would be meals for the attendee. <br /> <br />Attachments <br />None <br /> <br />Action Requested <br />Request Council permission to send IT Director Robert Pearson to this training for the awarded <br />e ui ment. Costs rovided for b the rant rocess. <br />Council Action Motion by Second by Vote <br /> <br />Follow Up <br /> <br />C: \Documents and Settings \ tallard\Local Settings \ Temporary Internet Files \ OLKF\Doc1.doc <br />