{"id":169246,"date":"2026-02-18T05:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T05:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/169246\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T05:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T05:20:08","slug":"houston-city-council-to-vote-on-extending-contract-for-antiquated-records-system-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/169246\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston city council to vote on extending contract for &#8216;antiquated&#8217; records system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Houston City Council is set to vote Wednesday on extending its contract for a records management system Houston police once called &#8220;antiquated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The contract extension, for the police records system by Centralsquare Technologies, would run until November and cost taxpayers $1.7 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In 2023, the city paid $31 million for a new record system by Versaterm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It was originally supposed to launch in late 2024 and then in early 2025, but now the launch date has apparently been pushed back again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Centralsquare system is perhaps best known for its role in the 2024 suspended cases scandal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Since 2016, more than 260,000 workable cases have been marked suspended due to a lack of personnel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Former police chief Troy Finner previously said that the suspended code was part and parcel of the Centralsquare system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;People ask about the code. Why was the code not removed? It&#8217;s hardwired to that system. If we try to remove that code, then our system crashes,&#8221; he said in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For news updates, follow Luke Jones on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lukejonesabc13\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LukeABC13\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:X;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">X<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/LukeABC13\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston City Council is set to vote Wednesday on extending its contract for a records management system Houston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[68537,68536,56,4626,58,57,8063,7224,68535],"class_list":["post-169246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-centralsquare","tag-centralsquare-technologies","tag-houston","tag-houston-city-council","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-police","tag-police-records","tag-record-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}