"[N]ow, California has an important chance to join with other states like Utah that are passing laws to reign in these technologies, and what minimum safeguards and transparency must go along with using them.

S.B. 524 does several important things: It mandates that police reports written by AI include disclaimers on every page or within the body of the text that make it clear that this report was written in part or in total by a computer. It also says that any reports written by AI must retain their first draft. That way, it should be easier for defense attorneys, judges, police supervisors, or any other auditing entity to see which portions of the final report were written by AI and which parts were written by the officer. Further, the bill requires officers to sign and verify that they read the report and its facts are correct. And it bans AI vendors from selling or sharing the information a police agency provided to the AI.

These common-sense, first-step reforms are important: watchdogs are struggling to figure out where and how AI is being used in a police context. In fact, Axon’s Draft One, would be out of compliance with this bill, which would require them to redesign their tool to make it more transparent—a small win for communities everywhere.

So now we’re asking you: help us make a difference. Use EFF’s Action Center to tell Governor Newsom to sign S.B. 524 into law!"

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/california-tell-governor-newsom-regulate-ai-police-reports-and-sign-sb-524

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