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A searchable database of public records concerning use of force and misconduct by California law enforcement officers -- some 1.5 million pages from nearly 700 law enforcement agencies -- is now available to the public. The Police Records Access Project, a database built by UC Berkeley and Stanford University, is being published by the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, KQED and CalMatters. It will vastly expand public access to internal affairs records that show how law enforcement agencies throughout the state handle misconduct allegations and uses of police force that result in death or serious injury. The database currently includes records from nearly 12,000 cases. The database is the product of years of work by a multidisciplinary team of journalists, data scientists, lawyers and civil liberties advocates, led by the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS), UC Berkeley Journalism's Investigative Reporting Program (IRP) and Stanford University's Big Local News.

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Raleigh County records that date back to the founding of the county in 1850 are being newly preserved by county officials. Deputy Circuit Clerk Vickie Suttle said the "preservation of history" started about five years ago when former Raleigh County Circuit Clerk Paul Flanagan purchased a large document scanner that she affectionately calls "The Beast," because of its size. The machine resembles a large desk and has a conveyor-like belt at one end that feeds documents through a scanner.

I love constructing knowledge graphs from various sources. I've wanted to create a government knowledge graph for some time now but was struggling to find any data that is easily accessible and doesn't require me to spend weeks developing a data pipeline. At first, I thought I would have to use OCR and NLP techniques to extract valuable information from public records, but luckily I stumbled upon UK Gazette. The UK Gazette is a website that holds the United Kingdom's official public record information. All the content on the website and via its APIs is available under the Open Government License v3.0.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first day in a 3-part series on Artificial Intelligence. This project was funded by a grant from the Pulitzer Center and provided by Eye on

In 2019, the Santa Fe Independent School District in Texas ran a weeklong pilot program with the facial recognition firm AnyVision in its school hallways. With more than 5,000 student photos uploaded for the test run, AnyVision called the results "impressive" and expressed excitement at the results to school administrators. "Overall, we had over 164,000 detections the last 7 days running the pilot. We were able to detect students on multiple cameras and even detected one student 1100 times!" Taylor May, then a regional sales manager for AnyVision, said in an email to the school's administrators.

I'll admit that I was more than a little skeptical when the Knight Foundation announced last week that it would award $3 million in grants to help local news organizations use artificial intelligence. My first reaction was that dousing the cash with gasoline and tossing a match would be just as effective. But then I started thinking about how AI has enhanced my own work as a journalist. For instance, just a few years ago I had two unappetizing choices after I recorded an interview: transcribing it myself or sending it out to an actual human being to do the work at considerable expense. Now I use an automated system, based on AI, that does a decent job at a fraction of the cost. Or consider Google, whose search engine makes use of AI.

In October 2019, Idaho proposed changing its Medicaid program. The state needed approval from the federal government, which solicited public feedback via Medicaid.gov. But half came not from concerned citizens or even internet trolls. They were generated by artificial intelligence. And a study found that people could not distinguish the real comments from the fake ones.

Artificial intelligence fueled by aerial imagery improves the life cycle of a policy from quote to claim. Consider an aerial image of a house. You know it's a house because your eyes recognize the shape of a roof and the ridges and slope of various roof faces. You can clearly see a concrete driveway and landscaping that includes areas of grass and large trees. You may also be able to identify the faint outline of the property or parcel.

What would have taken weeks or months of reporting by an investigative team today could take a lone journalist aided by artificial intelligence only one day. The fictional scenario below was inspired by the very real technological progress detailed in a recent study by The Associated Press. In fact, AP spent the past few months meeting with leaders in the artificial-intelligence field for an extensive report detailing the impact of AI in journalism. You can read the report here. By 2027, newsrooms will have an arsenal of AI-powered tools at their disposal, and journalists will seamlessly integrate smart machines into their everyday work, the study predicts.