2026 Webinar Series - AI Police Reports and Machine-Generated Evidence: What Civilian Oversight Needs to Know

Law enforcement agencies are increasingly using AI-assisted tools to draft incident reports, generate use-of-force narratives, predict risk, and produce records that are entering oversight investigations, administrative proceedings, and courtrooms. This webinar examines what civilian oversight practitioners need to understand about how these tools work, what they get wrong, and how to evaluate the records they produce.

Drawing on experience in federal criminal defense investigation and AI policy work , Rob Thies will walk through how AI-generated and AI-assisted police reports are produced, what systematic patterns and errors they tend to contain, and what investigative and analytical approaches help oversight practitioners identify when a report has been AI-assisted, where its account diverges from other evidence, and what questions to ask when the underlying AI system is not disclosed.

This presentation is directly applicable to police oversight, custodial oversight, and any civilian oversight function that involves reviewing law enforcement records, incident reports, or use-of-force documentation. Attendees will leave with a practical framework for evaluating AI-involved records and a set of concrete investigative questions to apply in their own work.