While Law Enforcement agencies have implemented more ways to capture audio, video, and text-based evidence, many are now considering how to store and find key moments within their records to quickly respond to requests for release to the public. Regardless of your agency size or type, the impact of slowly responding to records requests can be damaging, yet the average agency lacks the resources and time to properly find and redact records with...

Like most law enforcement agencies across the nation, the Henderson Police Department, located near Las Vegas, Nevada, was not immune to the growing nationwide trend for more public transparency in law enforcement. Over the past year, the number of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for public access to police audio and video evidence such as body-worn camera, in-car dash cameras, jailhouse calls, and surveillance camera footage, have...

The proliferation of audio and video evidential media continues to be on a constant rise. From body-worn camera footage to surveillance cameras to jailhouse calls to mobile phone camera footage, all these types of audio and video files that agencies have on record or are part of an investigation are subject to public release if it is part of a legal matter or part of an open public records request. The challenge with this is that the redaction...

Open government is at an inflection point. Public interest in requesting records is at an all-time high. At the same time, the amount of data held by the government is ballooning while public records offices are experiencing funding and staffing shortages. This combination of factors—plus the proven, growing complexity of the records requests—is causing growing backlogs, which now exceed 200,000 cases at the federal level.OPEXUS re...

One of the main goals of law enforcement agencies is to catch and prosecute those who have committed crimes of any sort. After all the evidence of a crime has been collected for review, the real hard work begins as investigators begin to sift through the mounds of physical and digital evidence. As they do this, they try to search and locate key artifacts that will assist them in identifying the suspect(s), the motive(s), and any other critical...

Federal government agencies are facing heightened pressure to achieve more with fewer resources. From public records requests to investigations, to eDiscovery, and litigation, the need to maximize efficiency without compromising outcomes has never been more critical. Watch this on-demand webinar to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) is driving transformative change within federal legal departments and enabling agencies to work smarter, n...