Transparency Engagement Advising Services

The vendor is required to provide transparency engagement advising services for its police department to communicate more effectively with the public regarding public safety and community engagement.
- Requirement:
•    Focusing on the best ways to handle difficult topics with the community with a focus on transparency. 
•    Writing high-profile transparency news releases and talking points for department when necessary. 
•    Best practices when dealing with transparency, timelines, key messages, and social media posts. 
•    Best practices for handling critical incidents, media related issues, and crisis communicated issues with a strong emphasis on transparency. 
•    Consultant helps with transparency news releases, transparency social media posts, transparency talking points, and press questions when an incident or situation occurs. 
•    Every other month, participate in a communication strategy session, in-person, that focuses on community outreach particularly on social media with a strong emphasis on social media. 
•    Keeping the client up to date with the best practices and platforms to engage the community on in a transparent way. 
•    Teaching department’s social media team the latest trends in social media for transparency. 
•    Teaching the client what types of content to look for, how to capture great pictures and video, and how to write stories in a way that creates community engagement with a strong focus on transparency. 
•    Helping brand larger, long-term campaigns and writing communications plans with an emphasis on transparency. 
•    Assist with video editing for a variety of projects, as needed. 
•    Customized public and critical incident messaging training, in-person, for department staff.

- Contract Period/Term: 1 year
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: October 21, 2025