On May 19, 2015, the Tacoma Police Department released a February 13, 2013, letter from the FBI to Harris Corporation permitting it “to sell the state-and-local version of the Stingray product with the restricted [“Landshark”] software to the Tacoma Police Department.”
The complete text of the letter:
Attention: Patricia Sciandra
Re: Contract J-FBI-09-211 “Landshark” Restricted Software Request Approval – Tacoma Police Department
Dear Ms. Sciandra:
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has an approved non-disclosure agreement (NDA) in place with the captioned law enforcement agency. In accordance with the cited restricted software agreement and the April 6, 2010 agreement between the FBI and the Harris Corporation, your notification to the FBI of the agency’s intent to purchase, and our execution of the NDA, meets the FBI’s advance coordination requirement. Therefore, the Harris Corporation is permitted to sell the state-and-local version of the Stingray product with the restricted software to the Tacoma Police Department.
W. L. Scott Bean, III
Chief, Technical Surveillance Section
Operational Technology Division