2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 62. Public Finance › §62-35.6.2. Land Mobile Radio Public Safety Interoperability Cooperative

A. In order to comply with Executive Orders and federal and state statutory and regulatory requirements related to interoperable public safety communications and to support the critical mission and purposes of the agencies within the Oklahoma Safety and Security Cabinet, the Transportation Cabinet and the Finance, Administration and Information Technology Cabinet, there is hereby established the Land Mobile Radio Public Safety Interoperability Cooperative. The Land Mobile Radio Public Safety Interoperability Cooperative shall be governed by a committee initially consisting of the Secretary of Finance, Administration and Information Technology or designee, the Secretary of Transportation or designee and the Secretary of Safety and Security or designee. The Cooperative is established to focus on unifying, stabilizing and enhancing the infrastructure and capabilities for land mobile radio public safety system communications for the State of Oklahoma and shall include representatives of other public radio system boards or committees along with future voting or non-voting public entity members as deemed appropriate, nominated and agreed to by vote of the committee members defined in this paragraph.
B. 1. In establishing and operating the Land Mobile Radio Public Safety Interoperability Cooperative, the committee shall collaborate with other public agencies, public entities and other interested parties having public safety radio communications requirements and resources.
2. The Cooperative shall establish an appropriate governance model for determining priorities, leveraging state-owned or other shared services and infrastructure, identifying existing and new resources and directing new investments to facilitate reliable, statewide and fully operational public safety radio communications to serve the purposes described.
3. In support of the requirements of the Oklahoma Homeland Security Act, the Oklahoma Information Services Act and the Information Technology Consolidation and Coordination Act, the Cooperative shall have the following duties:
a.
enable cost savings to the State of Oklahoma through unification and enhancement of current land mobile radio public safety systems,
b.
sustain existing interoperability of land mobile public safety radio systems,
c.
recommend standards and protocols for land mobile radio public safety systems,
d.
recommend standards to become P25 compliant and other common radio interoperability standards, and
e.
establish service metrics to ensure reliable land mobile public safety services statewide in support of state, local and first responders.
C. Actions, decisions and operation of the Land Mobile Radio Public Safety Interoperability Cooperative shall be performed in compliance with, in support of and secondary to all statutory duties, requirements, responsibilities and authority provided to the Office of Management and Enterprise Services and the Oklahoma Office of Homeland Security; however, the resources and mechanisms available to Cooperative members by ownership or through agreement may be collectively utilized to carry out the provisions of this statute.
Added by Laws 2016, c. 123, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2016.