Longview seeks up to $200,000 federal grant for police data platform

The Longview City Council on July 30 authorized the city to apply for up to $200,000 in federal funding for a proposed police data-integration and analytics platform.

The resolution covers a request to the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, or COPS. It authorizes the city to apply for and accept the funds, but it does not show that Longview has received an award, purchased the system or set an implementation date.

What Longview is proposing

If the grant is approved, the funding would support the Longview Police Department’s purchase of the Peregrine System. The council packet describes Peregrine as a web-based service that would provide a single point of access to integrate, discover, view and analyze data from defined police department sources.

The resolution says the proposed system would support the department’s community-policing strategies and real-time operations. The available records do not establish what data would ultimately be connected, how the platform would be configured or how it would affect day-to-day police work.

No city matching funds provided

The authorized application may not exceed $200,000. The resolution also states that no matching funds will be provided by the City of Longview for the grant.

Longview’s Grant and Human Services Department is responsible for submitting the application and administering the project if the grant is approved. The police department is identified as the department that would use the proposed platform.

What it could mean locally

If the application succeeds and a later purchase follows, the proposal could change how police data is accessed, combined and analyzed inside the department.

At this stage, the records do not support claims that the platform would reduce crime, improve response times or change public-facing police services. Those outcomes have not been established by the council resolution.

Federal review remains ahead

The resolution authorizes the city to submit the application in a timely manner and allows city officials to execute documents needed to pursue the grant. The Justice Department has separately described its fiscal-year 2026 law-enforcement grant programs, but that federal announcement does not establish that Longview has received funding.

The next records to watch are a federal award announcement, a grant agreement, a city procurement record or a later Longview update. No award or implementation timeline is established in the July 30 council materials.

Sources

• Longview City Council master agenda packet, July 30, 2026
• Justice Department releases $25 million in law-enforcement grants and resources