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RESOLUTION NO. 126 - 07
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF DUBLIN
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AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE
ALAMEDA COUNTY SHERIFF GEOGRAPHIC DATA SHARING POLICY
WHEREAS, the City maintains a Geographic Information System (GIS) for both Staff and Public
use; and
WHEREAS, the City has previously entered into GIS data sharing agreements with regional
agencies; and
WHEREAS, the sharing of GIS-related data between regional agencies provides consistency and
accuracy in the data used by public agencies; and
WHEREAS, the sharing of information among public agencies is a cost effective means of
providing important public services; and
WHEREAS, the Alameda County Sheriff proposes sharing of GIS-related data at no cost to the
City upon execution of the Alameda County Sheriff Geographic Data Sharing Policy; and
WHEREAS, the City Council received a report on proposed data sharing agreement at a public
meeting on July 17,2007; and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Dublin hereby
authorizes the City Manager to execute the Alameda County Sheriff Geographic Data Sharing Policy.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 17th day of July, 2007, by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmembers Hildenbrand, Oravetz, Sbranti, Scholz and Mayor Lockhart
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
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eso 126 Sheriff GIS Sharing (Item 4.10)
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ALAMEDA COUNTY SHERIFF
GEOGRAPHIC DATA SHARING POLICY
1.0 Purpose
The Alameda County Sheriffs Office has developed and maintains two countywide Geographic
Information System (GIS) data sets for the purpose of supporting its business processes. These are situs
point addresses (SPAD) and Street Centerlines (Streets).
This policy addresses how digital, geographic data formatted for use in our Intergraph CAD system may
be shared among government units such as cities, counties, and/or other public agencies. The County
recognizes the importance of sharing digital information and that all members named below have
contributed towards the initial construction of these data sets. This policy waives fees (see Exhibit A) for
sharing digital, GIS data, as described herein.
2.0 Eligible Data Sharing Members
The cities, county and public agencies named herein may participate in the Geographic Data Sharing
Policy by submitting a request to the Alameda County Sheriff GIS Contact, listed in section 3.4:
Albany Hayward
Alameda Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Labs
Alameda County Water District Livermore
Alameda County Fire Department Newark
Alameda County Public Works Dept Oakland
Berkeley Pleasanton
Dublin Piedmont
East Bay Regional Park District San Leandro
Emeryville Union City
Fremont Union City Sanitary District
At this time the GIS Committee will review the request and has the right to decline any requests to
participate.
All Eligible Data Sharing Members will be referred to as Data Sharing Members for reference purposes in
this policy.
3.0 Provisions of the Policy
In order to be a Data Sharing Member, local units of government and/or agencies must sign and agree to
all terms of this policy.
3.1 Data Owners
The Alameda County Sheriff's Department is the sole Data Owner ofthe SPAD and Streets GIS Data
Sets.
3.2 Data Users
Data Users are local units of government and/or agencies that are Data Sharing Members, who will
have access to digital data that the Data Owner has authorized for distribution. Data Users will follow
the Usage Restrictions as stated in this policy in section 3.8.
3.3 Published Data
Published Data is any digital data created, maintained, and/or rightfully controlled by Alameda County
Sheriff that is available to be shared through this policy. Available data sets will include metadata that
contains the name of the Data Owner, the name of the dataset (with a brief description), its most
recent amendment date, the Alameda County Sheriff Contact for sharing data, and any other
pertinent information. The Published Data will be in a GeoDatabase format.
Last Revised: April 12, 2007
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GEOGRAPHIC DATA SHARING POLICY
3.4 Contact Information
There will be a single contact designated to handle the exchange of GIS data and communications.
The Alameda County Sheriff Contact is:
Lynx Technologies
1350 41 st Avenue, Suite. 202
Capitola, CA 95010
(831) 479-4821
terrvh@lvnxqis.com
3.5 Access and Data Transfer
Data Sharing Members will have access and the use of Published Data developed by Alameda
County Sheriff. A Data Sharing Member requesting data from Alameda County Sheriff must agree to
and sign this Geographic Data Sharing Policy. Arrangements for transferring data, such as data
format and media, along with possible costs associated with the data transfer will be worked out with
each member.
Alameda County Sheriff will provide access to the Published Data, metadata, and/or any pertinent
data via the following ftp site: ftp://ftp.lvnxqis.com. Information and access to this site will be e-
mailed to the Data Sharing Member's upon their request and signed agreement. No fee shall be
charged to any Data Sharing Member using the site. Alameda County Sheriff reserves the right to
shut down any or all portions of such site or access thereto, to any Data Sharing Member, where the
County deems such action necessary to maintain, upgrade, or otherwise protect the integrity of the
site and/or the Alameda County Sheriff computer systems generally. Any issues or questions with
this site or GIS data should be forwarded to the Alameda County Sheriff Contact.
3.7 Disclaimer of Liability and Warranties .
A Data Sharing Member understands and agrees that it is possible that errors and omissions will
occur in data input or programming done by the County or for the County to provide the. GIS layers
and/or other data in the form desired. The Data Sharing Member further understands and agrees that
it is probable that errors and omissions will occur in record keeping processes, especially when large
numbers of records are developed and maintained, and that data may not meet the Data Sharing
Member's standards as to accuracy or completeness. Notwithstanding, the Data Sharing Member
agrees to take the data "as is", fully expecting that there may be errors and omissions associated with
the data.
A Data Sharing Member further understands and agrees that the County makes absolutely no
warranty whatsoever, whether expressed or implied, as to the accuracy, thoroughness, value, quality,
validity, merchantability, suitability, condition or fitness for a particular purpose of the data or any
programming used to obtain the data, nor as to whether the data is error-free, up-to-date, complete or
based upon accurate or meaningful facts.
A Data Sharing Member agrees that the County shall not be liable to the Data Sharing Member for
any liability, claim, loss, damage, injury or expense of any kind caused or alleged to be caused,
directly or indirectly, by the inadequacy of data obtained from the County, by any deficiency of County
or Data Sharing Member systems, by any delay or failure to provide any service, or by any other
interruption, disruption or loss of Data Sharing Member operations.
If a Data Sharing Member discovers errors in the shared digital data, Alameda County Sheriff Contact
will be notified of the error, and if necessary, a map depicting the error will be transmitted.
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Last Revised: April 12, 2007
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ALAMEDA COUNTY SHERIFF
GEOGRAPHIC DATA SHARING POLICY
3.8 Usage Restrictions
The Data Owner will retain all ownership of the digital data it has generated. When a Data Sharing
Member creates a data set that is derived from or based upon the shared data, but is itself
substantially and inductively different, the Data Sharing Member may become the sole owner of that
new data set after consultation and agreement with the Data Owner. It would be advisable to initiate
this consultation and agreement prior to commencing the data set work activity.
Data Sharing Members may only use shared data to promote clearly definable, publicly
supported objectives and functions. These objectives and functions include public planning
purposes, implementation and interpretation of scientific research and tabular information, the
generation of new data sets, and the creation of hard copy maps, charts, and reports, providing that
source citations and credits are listed on all products derived from shared data use.
Data Sharing Members are not authorized to market, remarket, transfer, distribute, reproduce,
loan, sell, license, or otherwise make available, whether for compensation or otherwise, any
coverages, spatial data, or documentation to any person, individual, company, association, firm,
corporation, or public or private entity regardless of the nature of the organization, without the prior
written consent of the Data Owner. The Data Sharing Member should request, in writing, to have the
Data Owner distribute digital data to another entity that is not part of this Data Sharing Policy. This
would include but is not limited to the Data Sharing Member's consultants, universities, state
agencies, and federal agencies. Further, the Data Owner may charge the cost of reproduction and
distribution of the digital data.
A Data Sharing Member may not use shared data in any way that misrepresents the integrity, quality,
or accuracy of the shared data, as stated by the Data Owner in the accompanying data set
documentation.
The Data user shall acknowledge Alameda County Sheriff as a source when Alameda County Sheriff
data are used in the preparation of" reports, papers, publications, maps, and other products,
regardless of physical form.
A Data Sharing Member is required to protect the shared data from unauthorized use by
employees or associates of the Data Sharing Member, or by others not associated with this
policy. Therefore, no employees or associates of the Data Sharing Member may use shared
data for personal or private gain.
4.0 Term of the Policy
The policy will become effective between Alameda County Sheriff and the Data Sharing Member once
signed by both parties and remains in force until either party wishes to withdraw.
5.0 Termination of Membership
This policy remains in force unless terminated by either the County or the Eligible Data Sharing Member.
Notice of cancellation shall be in writing and shall take effect immediately upon receipt of such notice.
Additionally, digital data not owned by the terminated member will be returned to the department/agency
(Data Owner) that has ownership of the data. Conversely, participating members will return all data
owned by the terminating member upon notification of termination.
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Last Revised: April 12, 2007
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ALAMEDA COUNTY SHERIFF
GEOGRAPHIC DATA SHARING POLICY
SIGNATURES
Leon King
City of Alameda
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Rohin Saleh Date
Alameda County Public Works Dept
Patrick DeTemple Date
City of Berkeley
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Beth Stone Date
East Bay Regional Park District
Chris Frost
City of Fremont
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City of Hayward
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Last Revised: April 12, 2007
Melinda Sunnarborg
City of Livermore
Soren Fajeau
. City of Newark
Steve Wood
City of Pleasanton
Michael Hamer
City of San Leandro
Richard Sealana
City of Union City
Ariz Naqvi
Union City Sanitary District
Patrick Kelleher
Lynx Technologies
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