How it works

Blind charging uses artificial intelligence under the hood to make automated redaction possible, including Azure Document Intelligence and OpenAI’s GPT-4o. All processing takes place in-memory on our partners’ Azure Government Cloud subscriptions, ensuring that reports and data remain confidential and are not used to train artificial intelligence algorithms.

Research from our pilot sites showed that automated redaction makes it hard to guess the race of an arrestee. We’re now working to evaluate blind charging’s impacts on charging decisions via a randomized controlled trial with prosecutors’ offices across the country.