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ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Fifty-Seventh Legislature, Second Regular Session
appropriations; law enforcement; records management
Purpose
Appropriates a total of $4,694,900 in FY 2027 from the state General Fund to the Arizona Department of Administration (ADOA) to distribute to outlined law enforcement entities to expand participation in the Law Enforcement Data Sharing Pilot Program (Pilot Program).
Background
In FY 2025, the Legislature made a one-time appropriation of $600,000 from the Peace Officer Training Equipment Fund to the Pinal County Sheriff's Office to establish the Pilot Program and connect the records management systems and computer aided dispatch systems of four agencies. The software for the Pilot Program must: 1) integrate data in common law enforcement systems on a real-time basis; 2) provide capabilities to deduplicate redundant records; 3) provide advanced configurable search, analytics and visualization capabilities; 4) provide granular access controls; 5) allow for secure permission-controlled data integration and sharing; 6) be accessible on a wide variety of common law enforcement agency devices; 7) demonstrate a track record or meeting or exceeding similar mission needs and the ability to reach full operational capability within 90 days; 8) allow for integration with existing identify and access management solutions; 9) be hosted in a secure and scalable criminal justice information services compliant cloud environment; 10) meet or exceed all Federal Bureau of Investigation criminal justice information services security standards; 11) provide granular audit logging; and 12) provide a fully open, interoperable architecture and business terms that ensure Arizona law enforcement agencies retain full and total rights to agency data at all times (Laws 2024, Ch. 29, Section 127).
S.B. 1579 appropriates a total of $4,694,900 from the state General Fund in FY 2027 to ADOA for distribution to outlined law enforcement entities.
Provisions
1. Appropriates $574,000 from the state General Fund in FY 2027 to ADOA for distribution to the Department of Public Safety to expand participation in the Pilot Program.
2. Appropriates a total of $1,201,600 from the state GF in FY 2026 to ADOA to distribute to the following county sheriffs' offices to expand Pilot Program participation:
a) $500,000 for Pinal County Sheriff's Office;
b) $220,000 for Maricopa County Sheriff's Office;
c) $171,800 for Pima County Sheriff's Office;
d) $100,000 for Navajo County Sheriff's Office;
e) $84,000 Yavapai County Sheriff's Office;
f) $78,000 for Cochise County Sheriff's Office; and
g) $47,800 for Coconino County Sheriff's Office.
3. Appropriates a total of $182,600 from the state GF in FY 2026 to ADOA to distribute to the following university police departments (PDs) to expand Pilot Program participation:
a) $64,900 for Arizona State University PD;
b) $64,900 for University of Arizona PD; and
c) $52,800 for Northern Arizona University PD.
4. Appropriates a total of $2,701,700 from the state GF in FY 2027 to ADOA to distribute to the following 40 PDs and police services to expand Pilot Program participation:
a) $343,000 for Phoenix PD;
b) $237,000 for Tucson PD;
c) $300,000 for Mesa PD;
d) $131,300 for Glendale PD;
e) $111,700 for Chandler PD;
f) $102,000 for Gilbert PD;
g) $83,900 for Peoria PD;
h) $82,500 for Flagstaff PD;
i) $72,500 for Avondale PD;
j) $69,200 for Goodyear PD;
k) $67,000 for Oro Valley PD;
l) $66,000 for Buckeye PD;
m) $65,000 for Marana PD;
n) $67,000 for Prescott PD;
o) $55,000 for El Mirage PD;
p) $55,000 for Jerome PD;
q) $54,000 for Sahuarita PD;
r) $54,000 for Cottonwood PD;
s) $54,000 for Prescott Valley PD;
t) $55,000 for Paradise Valley PD;
u) $50,700 for South Tucson PD;
v) $44,200 for Coolidge PD;
w) $44,200 for Show Low PD;
x) $44,200 for Sierra Vista PD;
y) $38,600 for Winslow PD;
z) $38,000 for Sedona PD;
aa) $35,000 for Chino Valley PD;
bb) $35,000 for Wickenburg PD;
cc) $25,000 for Snowflake-Taylor PD;
dd) $21,700 for Pinetop-Lakeside PD;
ee) $20,000 for Williams PD;
ff) $20,000 for Youngtown Police Services;
gg) $20,000 for Bisbee PD;
hh) $20,000 for Holbrook PD;
ii) $20,000 for Clarkdale PD;
jj) $20,000 for Huachuca City PD;
kk) $20,000 for Jerome PD;
ll) $20,000 for Benson PD;
mm) $20,000 for Willcox PD; and
nn) $20,000 for Tombstone PD.
5. Exempts the appropriations from lapsing.
6. Becomes effective on the general effective date.
Prepared by Senate Research
February 9, 2026
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