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Mark43 cannot legally auto-merge police records due to audit trail requirements

EJ Bensing · Scott Crouch and EJ Bensing, Mark43 // Reimagining Police Software (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) · Apr 20, 2015 · at 10:13

EJ Bensing, software engineer at Mark43, explains legal and evidentiary constraints on law enforcement software.

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“Legally we as Mark 43 cannot merge those records ourselves. We have to allow a law enforcement official to do that because each piece of data entered into the system must have an audit trail that can track back to them so that this can go to court.”

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The claim, plainly

Mark43 cannot legally merge police records automatically because each record modification requires a law enforcement officer's audit trail for court admissibility.

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Assessment

The claim asserts that Mark43 cannot legally merge police records automatically because court admissibility requires a manual audit trail from a law enforcement officer for every record modification. This is false. Federal Rules of Evidence (FRE 803(6), 902(13), and 902(14)) and FBI CJIS Security Policy standards allow records produced or modified by automated system processes to be self-authenticating and admissible, provided the system maintains a reliable, tamper-evident audit trail logging the automated process. There is no legal statute or CJIS standard prohibiting automated record deduplication or merging.

Federal Rules of Evidence 902(13) and 902(14) permit records generated by an automated electronic process to be self-authenticating via certification of process reliability, without requiring individual manual officer modifications.
FBI CJIS Security Policy Section 5.4 mandates audit logging for both human user actions and automated system processes, explicitly permitting automated operations provided system logs capture event details.
IJIS and IACP Law Enforcement RMS Functional Specifications explicitly include automated Master Name Index (MNI) deduplication and automated record merging capabilities.

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