Bodycam Redaction for Discovery Turnover

Bodycam Redaction for Discovery Turnover Without the All-Nighters

Frame-accurate video, audio, image, and PDF redaction plus grounded transcripts — so your office can turn over clean discovery without burning attorney hours it doesn't have.

Why Discovery Turnover Is Breaking PD Offices

• Redaction prep turns a 30-minute incident into a full-time job — It takes 1.5 to 2 hours to prepare each body camera video for discovery turnover, and a 30-minute incident can become 2 hours of footage with multiple officers responding. When your office is carrying caseloads the National Public Defense Workload Study found to be roughly 3 times too high — nearly 4x in Oklahoma — scrubbing every frame for bystander faces, victim identities, and license plates before turnover becomes its own full-time position nobody has.
• Excessive caseloads force triage representation on redaction work — The 1973 NAC standards estimate a public defender can handle 150 felony cases or 400 misdemeanor cases per year. Most offices blow past that. Under triage representation, some clients get diligence and others don't — and redaction for discovery turnover is often where corners get cut, exposing your office to challenges over improperly disclosed victim or witness information.
• Tightening discovery deadlines compress redaction time to nothing — Under expanded discovery obligations like New York's CPL Article 245, prosecutors met discovery deadlines on only 21% of cases statewide — 16% in local courts, 13% in NYC local courts. Defenders absorb the fallout: rushed turnover, late-disclosed video, and motion practice over disclosure. When a dump of bodycam, jail calls, and 911 audio lands two days before a hearing, there is no time left for a 2-hour-per-video manual redaction pass.

Why Public Defender Offices <span class="gradient">Choose Evidence Copilot</span>

• Defensible redactions, immutable originals — Defensible redactions, immutable originals: AI-suggested regions for bystander and victim faces, minor identities, PII screens, and license plates file as suggestion cards marked 'AI-suggested — needs review' that you approve or reject one by one. Nothing is ever auto-applied. Every redaction is a new derived file — the original is never touched — and every action is logged in an audit trail you can produce when turnover gets challenged.
• Cut the 2-hour-per-video prep drag — Cut the 2-hour-per-video prep drag: with 1.5 to 2 hours needed to prepare each body camera video for discovery, synced multi-camera playback — bodycam, dashcam, and interview-room footage on one master clock with an interleaved transcript — lets you jump to the moments worth redacting instead of scrubbing blind. Word-level audio redaction means you pick the exact spoken words from the transcript and that span mutes; frame-accurate video redaction means you drag a rectangle, choose black or blur, and move on.
• Priced for indigent defense budgets — Priced for indigent defense budgets: the PD Office plan is $750/attorney/yr with 100 media-processing hours included — published pricing, no sales wall, no feature tiers. Every plan includes the full workspace. Overage is metered and hard-capped at 3x included hours, so a runaway discovery dump cannot overbill your office mid-fiscal-year.

What's included

• Frame-accurate video redaction: drag a rectangle over a face, screen, or plate and apply black or blur — the redaction lands on a new derived file, never the original.
• Word-level audio redaction: pick the exact spoken words from the diarized transcript and that span is muted — no more re-listening to hunt for the PII moment.
• Image and PDF redaction with OCR: scanned police reports and photo evidence become searchable, citable text, and bounding boxes are kept so redaction regions are precise.
• AI-suggested redaction regions for bystander and victim faces, PII screens, and license plates — filed as suggestion cards marked 'AI-suggested — needs review' that you approve or reject.
• Multi-camera sync: link bodycam, dashcam, and interview-room footage to a single master clock with synced playback and an interleaved transcript, with auto-sync proposals reported with match evidence.
• Exhibit pack exports: a zip of video clips, still frames, and quoted excerpts plus a MANIFEST.md citation index, gated by per-member export permission.

Quick wins

• Redact PII in scanned police reports and photo evidence with PDF and image redaction — OCR'd text stays searchable and citable while the redacted derived file is what goes out the door.
• Use full-text search across transcripts and documents to find every mention of a victim or witness name before turnover, so redaction passes catch audio, video, and documents in one sweep.

How it works

1. Upload the discovery dump — Send bodycam video, interrogation footage, jail calls, 911 audio, police reports, and scans — up to 2 GB per file by web upload or your per-case inbound email address.
2. Review and redact — Work from timestamped, diarized transcripts with word-level timestamps. Redact faces and PII screens frame-accurately in video, mute exact spoken words in audio, and black out image and PDF regions. AI suggestions stay pending human review.
3. Export clean turnover — Produce the redacted derived files — originals untouched, actions audited — and pull an exhibit pack with a MANIFEST.md citation index if you need still frames and quoted excerpts alongside.

How Evidence Copilot Makes <span class="gradient">Redaction for Discovery Turnover</span> a One-Afternoon Task

• Manual, frame-accurate video redaction: drag a rectangle and choose black or blur — no auto-applied edits, ever
• Audio redaction at the word level: pick the exact spoken words and that span is muted, ideal for witness PII in bodycam and jail calls
• Every redaction is a new derived file with the original immutable and every action audited — clean turnover with a defensible chain of custody

Why we're different

• Defense-only by design — no prosecution or law-enforcement use cases
• Every redaction is manual and frame-accurate; nothing is ever auto-applied
• Originals are immutable; every redaction is a new derived file
• Every action is audited — a chain of custody you can show
• AI suggestions are marked 'needs review,' never silently applied
• Multi-camera sync links bodycam, dashcam, and interview footage to one master clock
• Transcripts, OCR, redaction, and citations in one workspace — no tool-hopping
• Published PD pricing at $750/attorney/yr — no sales wall, no feature tiers

Built for criminal-defense teams — every AI answer cites the exact moment it came from, every output is marked pending human review, and pricing is published with no sales wall.

What clients say

The word-level audio redaction is the part I didn't know I needed. I pick the exact spoken words from the transcript, that span mutes, and the original never changes. Turnover prep that used to eat an afternoon now fits between hearings — and with our caseloads, that's the difference between redacting everything and redacting what we can get to.

— Maria Delgado

AI-suggested regions for faces and license plates file as suggestion cards marked 'needs review' — nothing gets auto-applied. That's the only way I'd ever let software near a redaction, and the audit trail on every action is what I show when turnover gets challenged. Every redaction is a derived file; the original evidence is untouched.

— James Whitfield

Multi-camera sync put the bodycam, dashcam, and interview room on one master clock with an interleaved transcript. Finding what actually needs redacting across four officers' footage stopped being a scrubbing exercise — and the sync proposals come with match evidence like word-timing spreads, so I trust the clock before I start muting audio.

— Aisha Nkemdirim

Frequently asked questions

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