Law Enforcement Digital Evidence System (LEDES)

About the Program

Category: Criminal Justice and Public Safety (Best in Category)

Year: 2023

Larimer County’s District Attorney’s (DA) Office Law Enforcement Digital Evidence System (LEDES) application is an automated process that pulls necessary digital evidence from Axon/Evidence.com, a law enforcement Digital Evidence Management System (DEMS), to the DA’s Office Records Management System (RMS). It also queries every filed case to see if subsequent evidence has been uploaded to pull nightly. Currently, 90% of all evidence provided to our office comes from the Evidence.com system and every Law Enforcement Agency is using Axon/Evidence.com cameras in Larimer County. This system allows law enforcement to complete normal workflow processes and then digital evidence is automatically sent to the District Attorney’s Office each night. Currently, this system pulls around 5TB of data each month and places them into the DA’s electronic file without any human involvement. This changes how Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) and (DA) interact and speeds up case resolution and saves personnel time. The LEDES system has a dynamic interface, which allows it to not only interface with Axon/Evidence.com, but with any systems Application Programming Interface (API). Currently we are building a new LEDES interface with another law enforcement Digital Evidence Management System called TrackerSafe, which should be done by quarter four of 2023.