# Forensic Logic **Domain:** Austin Research / Surveillance **Doc Type:** Research entity **Source basis:** Supplied essay and the specifically identified records; verification scope is recorded in [[wiki/Austin Surveillance Evidence Ledger|the evidence ledger]]. **Forensic Logic** is the commercial company associated with the [[wiki/LEAP Network (Forensic Logic)|LEAP Network]] and the later [[wiki/COPLINK|COPLINK]] product lineage. SoundThinking’s June 2023 corporate history dates Forensic Logic’s LEAP to 2003, records its acquisition of COPLINK Detect from IBM in 2017, and places the company’s acquisition by ShotSpotter in 2022. Its importance to the Austin essay is the possibility that a regional public sharing system and a commercial national index were connected through a provider or data-transfer relationship. [[wiki/LEAP Provider Transition|NCTCOG’s documented 2014 closeout]] makes the provider question specific, but the reviewed transfer statement does not identify Forensic Logic. The company therefore has a documented corporate history and a separately unresolved relationship to NCTCOG’s portal. The strongest discriminators are the original vendor contract, assignment documents, provider names, and migration inventory. Shared naming and function motivate the inquiry; those records would establish its institutional and data lineage. ## Connected entries [[wiki/LEAP Network (Forensic Logic)|LEAP Network (Forensic Logic)]] · [[wiki/COPLINK|COPLINK]] · [[wiki/CrimeTracer|CrimeTracer]] · [[wiki/SoundThinking|SoundThinking]] · [[wiki/LEAP Provider Transition|LEAP Provider Transition]] ## Sources and corpus context - [[research/The Austin Surveillance Field|The Austin Surveillance Field]] - [SoundThinking — COPLINK X Is Now CrimeTracer, June 5, 2023](https://www.soundthinking.com/blog/coplink-x-is-now-crimetracer/) - [NCTCOG — FY2014 comprehensive annual financial report, PDF p. 10, provider transition](https://www.nctcog.org/getmedia/cb64f213-b8d5-4332-aae2-8cabe5354be1/CAFR2014.pdf?ext=.pdf) **Cluster:** [[wiki/Austin Surveillance Field|Austin Surveillance Field]] · [[wiki/Austin Executable Loop|Austin Executable Loop]] · [[wiki/Austin Surveillance Evidence Ledger|Austin Surveillance Evidence Ledger]]