Drive Efficiencies Up, Costs Down, & Keep Communities Safe

Veritone Contact provides our officers with a simplified way to collect required observational data, and ensures we comply with the latest legislation. The technology helps us redirect countless hours of valuable time and resources to continue our most important job of maintaining public safety.

Keeping our community safe, while earning their trust through our actions is of paramount concern for me and the whole department. One of the methods we employ in our transparency efforts is the timely release of video evidence. We don’t want to delay the public’s right to information just because we have video evidence that requires a large amount of PII redaction. That is why we have depended upon Veritone Redact to help expedite these requests and maintain the trust we have earned.

Shortly after we introduced our BWC program, we needed to respond to a public records request for some of the footage. It took our digital evidence technician eight hours to manually redact, frame-by-frame, PII of innocent bystanders in the footage. And that was just a 10 minute video clip. As a small agency, we don’t have the resources to dedicate to this very laborious, but important work. Thankfully, we were introduced to Veritone and the amount of time we have subsequently saved by using their automated redaction software is incalculable.

AI has the power to bring unprecedented efficiencies to all aspects of government, including the potential to revolutionize law enforcement today. This collaboration between Veritone and Microsoft on our Azure Government cloud platform enables government customers to tap into the latest innovations in AI as well as future applications.

Without Veritone IDentify, Orange County agency crime analysts and investigators spend long hours sifting through arrest records, asking their colleagues, or polling the public to identify their person of interest, leaving limited time to focus on solving the crimes at hand. Veritone IDentify is a boon for law enforcement efficacy, as it makes suspect identification in video evidence much easier and faster. The much-needed time and money savings mean our local officers will have more resources to dedicate to solving more cases.

As law enforcement agencies are under increasing scrutiny, we welcome more transparency. We want to be able to share relevant videos proactively with the public, particularly those from body cams. To make this happen, we needed sophisticated redaction software. Veritone quickly emerged as the right partner –– its Redact solution checked all of our boxes for security, including CJIS compliance and the stability of Microsoft Azure’s cloud. It’s also saving us taxpayer dollars, resources and time.