Lakeville Applies for State AI Chatbot Pilot

Technology Advisory Committee · Meeting of October 5, 2026

Lakeville's Technology Advisory Committee applied for a no-cost state AI chatbot pilot and flagged a months-overdue cybersecurity vendor report. Vice Chair Robert McNally said Apex, the vendor hired for a cybersecurity assessment, missed its promised four-week turnaround from June, telling the vendor in September, "You promised we're going to have this in about four weeks, and you did this in June." Chair Christopher Plonka said the state's Executive Office of Technology Security selected ChatGPT Enterprise for a free fiscal year 2027 pilot, moving to $9 to $13 per user per month in fiscal year 2028, with acceptance announcements expected October 9. The committee reviewed a revised Incident Response Plan, reformatted into checklists by Fire Chief O'Brien, aiming to finalize it in November, which would also unlock two pending state and federal tabletop cybersecurity exercises.

The committee voted unanimously to enter executive session under G.L. c. 30A, Section 21(a)(2).

In the full story:

• Meeting Minutes and the Govably AI Transcription Pilot
• Hardware and Software Inventory
• Cybersecurity Training and Phishing Testing
• AI Policy and the State's ChatGPT Enterprise Pilot
• Incident Response Plan
• Apex Cyber Assessment
• Tabletop Exercises and Body Camera Video Retention
• Cyber 351 Conference and Future Vendor Relationships
• Scheduling and Executive Session
• Who Was There
• Organizations And Documents Referenced
• The complete report: 2,585 words

Source: the Technology Advisory Committee meeting of October 5, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.

Checked against the record: before publication this article was automatically compared with the meeting transcript.