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Prosecutor and sheriff back Axon Justice Premier Plus for evidence and AI search; commissioners raise cost and accuracy concerns
Summary
Eaton County Prosecutor Doug Lloyd and sheriff Tom Reich urged adoption of Axon Justice Premier Plus to restore integrated evidence flows and add AI search and Cellebrite cellphone integration; commissioners questioned costs, AI accuracy and human oversight. The committee sent the purchase request to ways and means for financial review.
Eaton County Prosecutor Doug Lloyd told the Public Safety Committee that the sheriffs offices move to Axon Justice Premier left his office and the public defenders office receiving links rather than integrated files, which increases staff time to ingest body-cam video and reports.
"Everything that the sheriff uploads now is a link that is sent to my office," Lloyd said. "So instead of that actual body cam or that police report just being integrated into my system, now my legal assistants get a link, and they have to open it up, and then they have to spend the time to integrate it all into the system. So I'm doubling the amount of work for my legal assistants."
Lloyd and the public defender have asked the county to fund Justice Premier Plus — a 10-year quote was presented — arguing the Premier Plus tier adds AI-enabled search and an integration with Cellebrite for cloud-based cellphone analysis that would help handle very large digital evidence sets. Lloyd said the tool can reduce time spent manually watching hours of video and help locate clips by keyword or object.
Commissioners pressed staff for cost comparisons and asked whether the AI features and automatic summarization are appropriate for sensitive criminal evidence. Commissioner Toomey and Commissioner Haskell expressed concern about AI misinterpretation or omission in case work, noting that an automated synopsis could miss critical details.
An IT/vendor representative said the system is a closed environment, that the countys AI policy requires ‘‘a human in the loop,’' and that the AI is primarily a search and transcription aid that points reviewers to a specific portion of video rather than replacing human review. The representative also described the planned Cellebrite integration for large cellphone dumps and said cloud storage could reduce local server burdens.
The committee voted to send the procurement request to the Ways and Means committee for financial review and budgeting; commissioners noted the financial discussion belongs to Ways and Means and that detailed quotes and a 10-year cost breakdown will be part of that review.
Next steps: the purchase request and detailed 10-year pricing will be reviewed by Ways and Means; staff promised a list of peer counties using the same platform and additional procurement detail for the next meeting.
