Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office Makes Unbiased Charging Decisions with ScaleCapacity Generative AI Solution on AWS
Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office· United StatesAmazon Bedrock · Amazon Textract · Amazon S3 +3The Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office worked with AWS Partner ScaleCapacity to build a Race-Blind Charging solution to comply with California's AB 2778 mandate. The solution uses Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Textract to automatically redact race, ethnicity and other identifying details from police reports and case documents before charging decisions are made, with Amazon S3, DynamoDB, Cognito and SES supporting document storage, metadata and user access. The office processes around 17,000 cases annually, achieved compliance in six months, and can test and deploy new redaction rule changes in under a week.
Overview
The Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office worked with AWS Partner ScaleCapacity to build a Race-Blind Charging solution to comply with California's AB 2778 mandate. The solution uses Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Textract to automatically redact race, ethnicity and other identifying details from police reports and case documents before charging decisions are made, with Amazon S3, DynamoDB, Cognito and SES supporting document storage, metadata and user access. The office processes around 17,000 cases annually, achieved compliance in six months, and can test and deploy new redaction rule changes in under a week.
The challenge
The Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office needed to create a new solution to automate sensitive data redaction to comply with California's new Race-Blind Charging mandate (Penal Code Section 741 / AB 2778) by the January 1, 2025 deadline, while using existing staff and moving from development to production in a short timeframe.
The solution
ScaleCapacity designed and implemented a Race-Blind Charging solution based on AWS using AI and natural language processing. The solution uses Amazon Bedrock to automatically redact sensitive information such as race, ethnicity and other identifying details from case materials and anonymize sensitive data; Amazon Textract extracts text from PDF case documents; Amazon S3 stores case-related documents; Amazon DynamoDB stores case and user metadata; Amazon Cognito manages user authentication and authorization; and Amazon SES emails users when cases are assigned.
Reported business value
The District Attorney's Office achieved compliance with the state mandate in six months, faster than the expected ten months, can now automatically redact sensitive data from around 17,000 annual cases, and can thoroughly test and deploy new redaction rule changes in under a week. Attorneys can now view a case and make charging determinations without going into another internal system.
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