An update from the Austin Police department regarding the Austin Regional Intelligence Center also called a Fusion Center will have to wait.
"Looking for commonalities, looking for trends, looking for evolving threats to tell police officers hey this is a problem area we need to look at it and hopefully develop suspects", added Carter.
Skeptics and critics worry that the use of intelligence will be abused.
"There have been a lot of examples of really poor practices, both inefficient police practices and you know unconstitutional at least privacy evading acts have been done by some fusion centers in other parts of the country and quite frankly other parts of Texas", said Matt Simpson with the A.C.L.U.
A Fusion Center in Missouri stirred up controversy nationwide after encouraging law enforcement there to be on the lookout for people with Ron Paul stickers saying they could be members of the Modern Militia Movement.
"The true concern is what happens with analysis behind closed doors", added Simpson.
A public forum on the Fusion Center is slated to begin at some point in February, however no date has been set.
A.P.D. Assistant Chief David Carter was scheduled to update members of the Austin Public Safety Commission Monday night about the latest on the Fusion Center, however the lack of a quorum of commission members forced the meeting to be cancelled all together.
The Fusion Center is a collaborative effort by multiple law enforcement agencies to put local, state and federal police on the same page when it comes to intelligence. Assistant Chief Carter says the effort can help solve, interrupt or prevent serial crimes.
The Fusion Center will be paid for from grant money through Homeland Security.
Carter pointed to the Christmas Day scare of the Northwest Airlines flight where a 23-year old Nigerian was able to board wearing explosives in his underwear.
A number of federal agencies had prior knowledge of Umar Faroud Abdul Mutallab's potential threat as a suspected terrorist however none of those agencies shared the information with each other.
"All of the information is in the those databases it's lawfully there it was legally collected, but the problem was we couldn't connect the dots. The same thing happens on a local scale", said Carter.
