June 5 A meeting of the Pinal County Supervisors Board was asked to approve a $ 500,000 contract between the county and the massive blue for Overwatch.
“I was looking at the Massive Blue website, and is a person without additional information and without links,” said Kevin Cavanaugh, the then supervisor of District 1, to the attached chief of Pinal County at the Sheriff’s office, Matthew Thomas. “They produce software that we buy, and it does what? Can you explain that to us?”
“I can’t have a great detail because it is essentially secrets exchanged, and I don’t want to shake hands with the bad guys,” Thomas said. “But what I can tell is that the software is designed to help our researchers find, find and build a case about human trafficking, drug trafficking and arms trafficking.”
Cavanaugh said at the meeting of the Board that the basic information they obtained is that Massive Blue uses “50 bots of AI”. He then asked if the software has succeeded and if it helped the police make an arrest. Thomas explained that they have not yet made any arrest because they have only seen the proof of concept, but that the proof of concept was “good enough for us and our researchers to advance with this. Once this is approved and we get them [Massive Blue] According to the contract, we will advance with the prosecution of the cases. “
Cavanaugh asked if Overwatch is used in other counties, which led Thomas to invite Clem to the podium to speak. Clem appeared as a recently retired border agent and said that the massive blue is currently in negotiations with three counties in Arizona, including Pinal County.
“As a 14 -year resident of Pinal County, I know what is happening here,” Clem told the Supervisors Board. “To be able [to] Use this program […] To provide all the necessary information to go after children’s exploitation, trafficking victims and all other vertical ones that the Sheriff may want to pursue. ”
Cavanaugh again asked if Massive Blue gathered some data that led to arrests.
“We have not yet made arrests, but at this time there is a current investigation into the cause caused, and we obtained potential customers to researchers,” said Clem, explaining that the program has been active for only about six months. “The investigations have been, but we have been able to generate the necessary potential clients for the private counties with which we are involved and also in the private sector.”
The Pinal County Supervisors Board concluded the exchange by approving the payment of a handful of other unrelated projects, but with the members of the Board asking to delay the vote on the payment of massive blue “for subsequent studies.”
The decision not to finance massive blue that day was covered in a Local newspaper. Cavanaugh told the newspaper that he asked the company to meet the supervisors to explain the merits of the software.
“The state of Arizona has provided a subsidy, but the money of the subsidy is the money of the taxpayers. It does not matter the source of financing, combating human and sexual traffic is too important to risk half a million dollars in not proven technology,” he said. “If the company shows that it can deliver evidence to arrest people traffickers, it can be worth it. However, it has not yet achieved this goal.”
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