"California Governor Newsom has signed S.B. 524, a bill that begins the long process of regulating and imposing transparency on the growing problem of AI-written police reports. EFF supported this bill and has spent the last year vocally criticizing the companies pushing AI-generated police reports as a service. requires police to disclose, on the report, if it was used to fully or in part author a police report. Further, it bans vendors from selling or sharing the information a police agency provided to the AI."
"This creates major problems for police who use the most popular product in this space: Axon's Draft One. By design, Draft One does not retain an edit log of who wrote what . Now, to stay in compliance with the law, police departments will either need Axon to change their product, or officers will have to take it upon themselves to go retain evidence"
California S.B. 524 requires police to disclose on reports when AI fully or partly authored them, bans vendors from selling or sharing agency-provided inputs, and mandates retention of all draft versions. Retained drafts must show which portions were drafted by officers versus AI so judges, defense attorneys, or auditors can review authorship. Popular AI-assisted report products like Axon's Draft One lack edit logs and therefore pose compliance challenges unless vendors add audit trails or officers manually preserve draft histories. Agencies must either secure product changes, adopt manual processes to retain edits, or stop using noncompliant tools.
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