Legal basis

No dedicated statutory framework. A privacy impact assessment was submitted to Alberta's Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner

Oversight

Edmonton Police Commission and the chief's committee, reviewing pilot results as of the time of writing

The first Canadian police service, and among the first anywhere, to trial facial recognition built into body-worn cameras rather than fixed or handheld devices. Axon supplied the camera hardware and Israeli firm Corsight AI the facial recognition model. The pilot ran through December 2025 and was extended roughly three weeks into January 2026 following a system outage. Officers' cameras ran the software in what EPS calls silent mode, checking faces against a watchlist of people with outstanding warrants for serious offences or flagged as high risk, reported variously as roughly 6,341 and 7,000 people, without alerting the wearing officer to a match; footage was reviewed afterwards by trained staff. Status note: the pilot itself concluded in January 2026 and results were with the Edmonton Police Commission and the chief's committee for review. This entry is deliberately held at trial rather than moved to discontinued, because a concluded pilot awaiting a decision is not the same as a technology that has been abandoned, and no decision either way has been published. Two independent research passes reached opposite conclusions on how to classify it, which is itself a reason to record the underlying facts and let the status follow a documented decision rather than an inference. A researcher at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab described it as the most high-risk algorithmic surveillance program she had observed in Canada to date. Corsight AI's technology has reportedly been used for mass surveillance in Gaza, and the firm also supplies Essex Police in England. Axon's own AI ethics board recommended in 2019 that the company not pursue facial recognition on body cameras.

Source: CBC News (Freedom of Information documents), Associated Press, Biometric Update · last checked 2026-08-25

Legal basis

No dedicated statute. Officers are required to review and take responsibility for the final report

Oversight

Internal department review of each generated report before submission; no external oversight body identified

US Department of Justice research documents both products as operational: body-worn camera audio is transcribed and a generative AI model produces a first draft report, which the officer must review, amend as needed and sign. Both systems work from audio only, not the camera's visual footage, according to the DOJ's own description. This differs in kind from a general-purpose assistant like Microsoft Copilot, which the site already tracks separately: these are purpose-built for report drafting from a fixed audio input, not a general chat tool applied to policing tasks.

Source: US Department of Justice research documentation · last checked 2026-08-25

Legal basis

Not stated

Oversight

Not stated

Used for periods when multiple callers report the same incident, such as a road collision. The AI assesses incoming calls and identifies those relating to an incident already known to the emergency communications centre, allowing human call-takers to prioritise calls requiring intervention. Human staff remain responsible for calls needing emergency intervention. Carbyne and the district describe the technology as having processed more than 3,500 events during a 90-day period and reduced redundant calls by more than 30 percent among the calls it triaged. These are vendor and customer reported figures rather than independently validated efficacy measures. Axon announced a definitive agreement to acquire Carbyne on 4 November 2025 for $625 million, closing in Q1 2026 per Axon's FY2025 shareholder letter. Axon separately acquired Prepared (see the AI Emergency and Non-Emergency Call Triage entry) in late 2025; the two now anchor a combined product line branded Axon 911. This concentrates a striking share of the US emergency-response AI market in one vendor -- Axon now owns Carbyne, Prepared, Fusus, Draft One and Axon body cameras. A scope note: this is an emergency communications district handling police, fire and medical calls, rather than a police force. It is included because control rooms and emergency response fall within this site's subject scope.

Source: Axon press release; Axon investor relations; GovTech · last checked 2026-08-25

Legal basis

Ordinary municipal procurement; no dedicated statute

Oversight

Governed by individual memoranda of understanding and local retention laws per force

Cloud platform integrating existing camera, ALPR, drone and dispatch feeds into one live operating picture for a police real-time crime centre. Its distinguishing feature, the fususCORE device, lets private camera owners (businesses, schools, households) voluntarily connect cameras to the police platform on customisable terms; some jurisdictions run donor programmes providing free units. Axon states there is no facial recognition in the platform -- a specific, checkable claim. Documented contracts: Providence RI ($750,000, signed June 2024, to at least 2028); Chula Vista CA (Jan 2026 council report, replacing Motorola Solutions -- a second entry for a force already on this tracker for Drone as First Responder); Knoxville TN ('Connect Knoxville', residents/businesses buy fususCORE devices); Lawrence KS. Related: Axon Lightpost, a streetlight-powered ALPR camera that pairs with Fusus, making Axon a direct ALPR competitor to Flock Safety (Axon was previously a Flock investor before the two split).

Source: Chula Vista City Council staff report; Stanford Law CodeX presentation transcript · last checked 2026-08-25

Legal basis

Ordinary municipal procurement; no dedicated statute

Oversight

None identified externally; Antioch's staff report frames dispatchers as retaining prioritisation and dispatch decisions

Assistive AI layer for 911 call centres: transcribes calls live, translates in real time via synthetic voice, and extracts addresses/incident details automatically. Reports 1,000+ agency partnerships covering ~100 million people; combined with Carbyne, Axon states the pair process 80m+ 911 calls/year. Trade publication Officer.com reports (Aug 2026, citing Axon's 911-division CEO) that in Fort Worth TX the platform handles non-emergency calls fully autonomously, thousands per month with no human call-taker -- a categorical step beyond every other control-room entry on this tracker, which all describe AI assisting a human who retains the decision. This specific claim is vendor-sourced (a company CEO in trade press, not a Fort Worth city source) and is recorded with that caveat; if independently confirmed it would be the first fully automated call-handling deployment found in this research. Contrasts directly with this site's existing UK 101-triage entry, which records the UK government's position that it 'does not support police use of AI to answer 999 calls'. Confirmed municipal procurement: Antioch CA (March 2026 sole-source staff report) and Alameda County Sheriff's Office.

Source: Officer.com; Antioch City Council staff report via Contra Costa News · last checked 2026-08-25