HB 19-1073 Summary

• Creates a grant program to assist rural and cash-strapped local law enforcement agencies in joining the Colorado Information Sharing Consortium (CISC), a secure data-sharing platform established in 2014 with 68 of Colorado's 333 certified peace officer agencies.

• Grants may be used to cover costs of connecting to CISC's information-sharing systems, including computer hardware, software, and programming necessary to share law enforcement data and criminal intelligence information.

• Establishes strict requirements for grant recipients including maintaining custodianship of their own data, complying with federal criminal intelligence standards (28 CFR 23), prohibiting sale of shared data, and only maintaining intelligence information based on reasonable suspicion of criminal activity.

• Appropriates $500,000 from the Marijuana Tax Cash Fund for the 2019-20 fiscal year, with the program administered by the Division within the Department of Public Safety and grants awarded based on financial need and commitment to data sharing.

• Program and associated fund provisions are repealed effective July 1, 2022, making this a temporary grant initiative.