# LEAP Provider Transition **Domain:** Austin Research / Surveillance **Doc Type:** Evidence and chronology **Source basis:** Supplied essay and the specifically identified records; verification scope is recorded in [[wiki/Austin Surveillance Evidence Ledger|the evidence ledger]]. The **LEAP provider transition** is the documented end of NCTCOG’s contract role in 2014 and the associated handoff described in its institutional reports. It is the critical chronological junction between Austin’s 2012 participation and claims about the later location of its records. ## What the records establish | Record | Recorded event | | --- | --- | | Austin’s 2012 agreement, §4 | Initial term through October 31, 2013; automatic annual renewal unless terminated. | | NCTCOG FY2014 projected goals | Anticipated April 2014 contract expiration and transfer of fiscal-agent duties to another entity. | | NCTCOG FY2014 Goals Attainment, p. 79 | Contract extended to **August 31, 2014** and closed on that date. | | NCTCOG FY2014 annual financial report, PDF p. 10 | Contract expiration in August and assistance transferring the program to new provider entities. | The projected April date and the actual August closeout are reconciled by the attainment report’s extension statement. The named successor providers, executed transfer instruments, and transferred data inventory are not supplied by these passages. ## Two histories, with a specific missing connection [[wiki/LEAP Network (Forensic Logic)|Forensic Logic’s LEAP Network]] has a separately documented corporate lineage into [[wiki/COPLINK|COPLINK]] and [[wiki/CrimeTracer|CrimeTracer]]. The supplied essay proposes that the NCTCOG and commercial histories connect, based on shared naming, function, and overlapping dates. The new NCTCOG record adds a documented handoff, but does not name Forensic Logic as its recipient. The wiki therefore carries **the regional-to-federal interface as documented**, **the 2014 provider transition as documented**, and **NCTCOG records entering the Forensic Logic/CrimeTracer corpus as an unresolved lineage hypothesis**. This preserves the essay’s inquiry while avoiding a false chain of custody. “Nationalized” in that discussion means expansion to national market reach, not acquisition by the national government. ## Records that would resolve the lineage The most useful next artifacts are NCTCOG’s contract and closeout file, the LEAP Advisory Committee’s transition minutes, assignment or novation agreements, the named providers’ data-migration schedules, and Austin’s acceptance, termination, account, or audit records. A matching vendor name establishes less than a record-level migration; continued user access establishes less than transfer of every contributed dataset. The 2015–2018 question is now more specific: **which provider served Austin after August 2014, under what surviving agreement, and with what records and permissions?** A fresh council vote was not automatically required each year under the original renewal clause. ## Connected entries [[wiki/Law Enforcement Analysis Portal|Law Enforcement Analysis Portal]] · [[wiki/North Central Texas Council of Governments|North Central Texas Council of Governments]] · [[wiki/LEAP Network (Forensic Logic)|LEAP Network (Forensic Logic)]] · [[wiki/Forensic Logic|Forensic Logic]] · [[wiki/CrimeTracer|CrimeTracer]] · [[wiki/Interlocal Information Sharing|Interlocal Information Sharing]] · [[wiki/Surveillance Record Persistence|Surveillance Record Persistence]] ## Sources and corpus context - [[research/The Austin Surveillance Field|The Austin Surveillance Field]] - [City of Austin — LEAP interlocal agreement, recitals and §§2–7](https://services.austintexas.gov/edims/document.cfm?id=176641) - [NCTCOG — FY2014 Goals Attainment, p. 79, contract extended and closed August 31, 2014](https://www.nctcog.org/getContentAsset/62860e51-24a3-4b7f-b187-2be6a77fcd5f/dfc3d011-8f63-43f6-9ed8-4b444333a1d0/fy-2014-nctcog-goals-attainment.pdf) - [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) - [SoundThinking — COPLINK X Is Now CrimeTracer, June 5, 2023](https://www.soundthinking.com/blog/coplink-x-is-now-crimetracer/) **Cluster:** [[wiki/Austin Surveillance Field|Austin Surveillance Field]] · [[wiki/Austin Executable Loop|Austin Executable Loop]] · [[wiki/Austin Surveillance Evidence Ledger|Austin Surveillance Evidence Ledger]]