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Digital Evidence Management for Prosecutors and DA Offices

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Digital Evidence Management for Prosecutors and DA Offices
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Built for Prosecutor Evidence Review and Discovery Workflows

iCrimeFighter is a leading Digital Evidence Management System (DEMS). Here's what it does for you:
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Secure Discovery Sharing
By simplifying digital evidence.
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Police-to-Prosecutor Handoff
All sources, all formats, in one place.
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Case-Based Evidence Review
No more exchanging physical media like CDs, DVDs, or external hard drives.
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Chain of Custody Tracking
Easy to access any time, anywhere.
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Long-Term Digital Evidence Storage
Secure, compliant, and easy to access anytime, anywhere.
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Works With Prosecutor Case Management and Law Enforcement Systems

These partnerships and integrations enable seamless collaboration, efficient data analysis, and secure digital evidence storage, ultimately enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of criminal investigations.
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Why prosecutors love iCrimeFighter

Helps you focus on cases, not managing digital evidence

iCrimeFighter brings all digital evidence together in one place. Bodycam video, phone dumps from forensic extractions, paper scans, and even text messages. It's your an all-in-one digital evidence management solution built to centralize digital evidence and make sharing simple.

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This has simplified our work and process so much, not to mention that of our law enforcement partners.
iCrimeFighter simplifies e-discovery for prosecutors with secure platforms. Easily manage and present digital evidence from various sources for legal professionals, enhancing case outcomes.
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Files added weekly
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Users
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900+
Agencies
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States (and growing)
Why prosecutors love iCrimeFighter

Helps you focus on cases, not managing digital evidence

iCrimeFighter brings all digital evidence together, in one place. Bodycam videos, phone dumps (forensic extractions), paper scans, even text messages. It’s your all-in-one digital evidence solution that holds everything and it makes sharing simple.

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This has simplified our work and process so much, not to mention that of our law enforcement partners.
iCrimeFighter simplifies e-discovery for prosecutors with secure platforms. Easily manage and present digital evidence from various sources for legal professionals, enhancing case outcomes.
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1,000,000
Files added weekly
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Active users
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900+
Counties
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22
States (and growing)
Enhance digital evidence collection for law enforcement with iCrimeFighter. Manage and streamline body camera evidence alongside other digital assets, ensuring secure data sharing in investigations.
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Gets the most out of your bodycams iCrimeFighter seamlessly integrates with all major RMS systems and body-worn camera systems. Sharing and managing body camera footage becomes significantly easier for you. In short - you get more out of your existing tools.

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Hear from those who’ll never go back
We often hear “I can’t believe how I managed without iCrimeFighter” from prosecutors. As a small team, we’re proud to have transformed how prosecutors and law enforcement across the nation work. Hear from some of them below.
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We viewed several products before selecting iCrimefighter and all stakeholders have been very happy that we chose iCrimefighter. It has worked very well for Officers and Deputies, Evidence and Records Staff as well as our Prosecutor's Office.
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Jeff Dowling
Property and Evidence Supervisor
Kearney Police Department
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A recent update is iCrimeFighter  “talks” to our case management system, Prosecutor by Karpel (PbK),  and this allows staff to access any discovery in iCrimeFighter through PbK, when a case is entered into iCrimeFighter.
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Victim Witness Coordinator
Fergus County
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We at the Converse County Sheriff's Office are EXTREMELY pleased we went with iCrimefighter and would strongly recommend this to any law enforcement agency facing the issues of digital evidence management.
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Established in 2011 in MN, iCrimeFighter has earned the trust of over 900 agencies throughout the United States. Our solution enables those who protect America to focus less on administrative tasks and more on what they do best - keeping our communities safe. We are proud to use technology to empower those who protect us.
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iCrimeFighter provides outstanding customer support. We pride ourselves on supporting justice and realize the work we do protects citizens such as ourselves.
Our support team is available around the clock and is happy to help you with whatever issue you’re facing.

After all, crime doesn't follow a 9-to-5 schedule.
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Fully digital
With iCrimeFighter, you don’t need to burn CDs, DVDs, thumb drives, or utilize external hard drives or paper to work with other offices and agencies.
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Secure access to your digital evidence is key. iCrimeFighter provides top-tier security, digital evidence collection tools, and robust data privacy compliance. Prioritize protection for all your data.
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Need that digital evidence in the courtroom urgently? You can bring it up on your phone as well.
Security and Compliance for Prosecutor Digital Evidence Workflows
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Want to save time managing digital evidence?
We would love to help you as we have for prosecutor offices and law enforcement agencies across the nation. Book a live demo today and we’ll take you through the tool and answer any questions you may have.
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Share discovery with ease

iCrimeFighter for Prosecutors is a DEMS made specifically for Prosecutors. Receive evidence from multiple sources, view files without downloading anything and share discovery with the click of a button.

No burning, printing or shipping of media

iCrimeFighter for Prosecutors allows you to receive and share evidence without burning and shipping media. The files are stored in a secure cloud and instantly available to anyone you share with.

Maintains comprehensive chain of custody history

iCrimeFighter for Prosecutors provides a comprehensive chain of custody, tracking its lifecycle from collection to courtroom presentation. This ensures the integrity and credibility of digital evidence.

View files all in one place, without downloading or needing software

iCrimeFighter for Prosecutors allows you to access and view all files centrally, eliminating the need for downloading or installing additional software. This streamlined approach ensures efficient and seamless file management, enhancing productivity and case handling efficiency.

Best in class support

iCrimeFighter for Prosecutors offers best-in-class support, ensuring users receive prompt, expert assistance for any queries or issues. This superior level of customer service guarantees a smooth, uninterrupted experience, enhancing overall user satisfaction and system reliability.

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Share discovery with ease

iCrimeFighter for Prosecutors is a DEMS made specifically for Prosecutors. Receive evidence from multiple sources, view files without downloading anything and share discovery with the click of a button.

No burning, printing or shipping of media

iCrimeFighter for Prosecutors allows you to receive and share evidence without burning and shipping media. The files are stored in a secure cloud and instantly available to anyone you share with.

Maintains comprehensive chain of custody history

iCrimeFighter for Prosecutors provides a comprehensive chain of custody, tracking its lifecycle from collection to courtroom presentation. This ensures the integrity and credibility of digital evidence.

View files all in one place, without downloading or needing software

iCrimeFighter for Prosecutors allows you to access and view all files centrally, eliminating the need for downloading or installing additional software. This streamlined approach ensures efficient and seamless file management, enhancing productivity and case handling efficiency.

Best in class support

iCrimeFighter for Prosecutors offers best-in-class support, ensuring users receive prompt, expert assistance for any queries or issues. This superior level of customer service guarantees a smooth, uninterrupted experience, enhancing overall user satisfaction and system reliability.

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Unlock the power of iCrimeFighter today! Schedule your personalized demo now to see how our cutting-edge solutions can transform your prosecution process.

Community Uploads for Digital Evidence: Accelerating Public Safety Investigations

In high-profile incidents or fast-moving investigations, the most crucial evidence often sits on the smartphones and doorbell cameras of everyday citizens. But without a direct, secure way to collect those files, investigators are left chasing email attachments, handling physical flash drives, or combing through social media tags, wasting precious hours when time matters most.

Secure community upload gateways bridge this gap. By allowing law enforcement agencies to collect photo, video, and audio files directly from the public via secure links or QR codes, this technology accelerates investigative leads while maintaining an automatic, tamper-evident audit trail from the moment of submission.
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What Are Community Uploads for Digital Evidence?

The concept of public intake represents a shift from reactive data collection to active, secure digital curation.

Community Uploads are defined as a special intake mechanism incorporated in DEMS, which enables any citizen, property owner, or witness to securely upload multimedia content to public safety authorities without the need for direct connection to the internal network and without creating an account.

As opposed to making citizens struggle with complicated portals, install dedicated mobile applications, or drop off physical media such as flash drives, contemporary tools used by public safety authorities for receiving digital evidence employ secure URL and QR codes. In such a way, it becomes possible to develop a secure link between civilians and the agency’s internal repository.

This system works based on accessibility. For example, a detective investigating a burglary case can print a flyer with a QR code embedded in it and distribute it to civilians living in a three-block radius. Then, homeowners will be able to upload videos from their doorbell camera just by scanning the QR code on the flyer.

Data bypasses the officer’s personal inbox and routes directly into the iCF case. Investigators can immediately review incoming submissions, ensuring vital evidence is secured during the critical early hours of an investigation before witnesses lose interest or security systems overwrite local footage.

Why Public Safety Agencies Need a Dedicated Public Submission Tool

Relying on legacy collection workflows or consumer-grade file-sharing platforms to harvest community media introduces operational liabilities that can damage both law enforcement investigations and subsequent prosecution strategies.

Administrative Drag on Field Operations

On the street, time is the most valuable resource an investigator possesses. Under legacy systems, collecting video footage from three different local businesses requires a detective to physically drive to each location, wait for a manager to figure out how to export the files, and either burn the data to a DVD or copy it onto an agency-issued USB drive. This manual process easily consumes half a shift just for data retrieval.

When scaled across an entire investigative division, this creates an enormous bottleneck that keeps badges behind desks instead of out in the community.

Chain of Custody Vulnerabilities

The moment a file is moved across unmanaged networks or consumer messaging applications, its structural integrity is compromised. When a witness texts a video clip to an officer's phone or sends it via standard email, the underlying metadata is frequently stripped or modified.

In a courtroom setting, a lack of technical continuity creates vulnerabilities. Defense counsel may use modified timestamps, altered file names, or missing metadata to raise authenticity challenges under Federal Rules of Evidence 901 and 902, increasing judicial scrutiny and making it harder for prosecutors to establish an unbroken chain of custody.

Network Security Risks

Allowing untested media files through the regular email networks used by the agency and the unsecure file shares poses major cybersecurity threats. Contemporary ransomware, malware, and other advanced phishing packages may be disguised within common media files such as .mp4 video or .jpeg image files.

A secure perimeter that is capable of screening all civilian files is needed to prevent any public submission from being able to compromise the network of a whole city or county.

Prosecutorial Discovery Delays

When digital evidence is collected via ad-hoc methods, such as saving files to local desktop folders, individual flash drives, or external hard drives, it becomes virtually invisible to the rest of the justice system. If a detective forgets to manually transfer a witness video into the master case folder, that file will not be included in the initial packet sent to the District Attorney's Office.

This creates friction during discovery handoffs, potentially leading to Brady material omissions, costly trial continuances, or complete case dismissals due to speedy trial violations.

Secure Upload Links vs. Physical Collection and Consumer Apps

To maintain strict evidentiary standards under judicial review, public safety teams must differentiate between purpose-built collection pipelines and ad-hoc consumer alternatives. The tools an agency chooses directly impact data speed, security, and admissibility in court.

Evaluation Criteria

Consumer Apps (SMS, WhatsApp, Signal)

Physical Media (USB Drives, Discs)

Secure DEMS Portal (iCrimeFighter)

Ingestion Speed

Rapid transmission, but strictly limited by file size caps and long-form video restrictions.
Extremely slow; requires physical travel, manual pick-up, and localized desk ingestion.
Instantaneous; cloud-optimized for high-capacity files submitted from any mobile device.

Metadata Preservation

Poor; standard consumer messaging platforms compress video streams and strip native EXIF data.
Variable; relies entirely on the technical state of the source drive and export format.
Helps preserve submitted file structure and available metadata as received, depending on device/export conditions.

Malware Screening

None; exposes internal agency mobile devices and endpoints to direct payload risks.
None; relies on manual, localized endpoint scan tools at the point of hardware insertion.
Automated; instantly scans and verifies incoming files as they enter the case, keeping your system secure without adding extra steps.

Audit Logs

Non-existent or fragmented across disparate personal or agency cell phone bills.
Manual tracking; prone to human entry omission or administrative errors on property sheets.
Immutable; automatically logs the file path from the initial public submission through prosecutor review.

Core Capabilities of a Secure Citizen Digital Evidence Portal

An enterprise-grade citizen digital evidence upload portal must balance an intuitive user experience for the public with strict compliance controls for the agency.

Zero-Account Submission Interface

The civilian portal must be simple to navigate. Community members should never be forced to create a username, configure a password, or download an external mobile app to assist public safety personnel. A friction-free upload page ensures higher community participation rates.

Automated Hash Generation

To satisfy the strict demands of judicial authentication, the platform must compute cryptographic hash values (such as a SHA-256 or MD5 hash) at the exact millisecond of ingestion. This creates an unalterable digital fingerprint that proves file integrity over time.

Granular Request Expiration

Investigators need the ability to configure automated expiration thresholds on active community digital evidence submission links. This ensures public portals close automatically once an active operational collection window shuts, preventing spam or bad-faith uploads after an investigation has moved forward.

Immediate Case Directory Ingestion

Automatically routes public uploads straight into the designated case file. By linking incoming media directly to the correct investigation, the platform eliminates hours of manual sorting while keeping your case files clean and organized.

How Community Submissions Streamline Investigative Workflows

Integrating automated public ingestion into an agency's day-to-day workflow bridges the gap between field operations and final court presentation.

When a critical incident occurs, command staff or on-scene supervisors can immediately publish a localized, secure upload link via public information channels, or print case-specific QR codes for field units to hand out directly to witnesses on the perimeter.

As citizens upload their media assets from their smartphones, the system automatically validates file integrity, screens out potential security threats, and appends the items directly to the designated digital case folder.

Once the files are shared to the prosecutor's office, the district attorney receives a complete, chronological timeline of all collected assets. Because the files are already cataloged, hashed, and tracked within the DEMS, the legal team can manage discovery compliance without having to hunt down missing digital files or locate unindexed physical media.

How iCrimeFighter Simplifies Community Uploads

Selecting the right software requires finding a system that balances security controls with a simple interface for personnel in the field and citizens in the community. This balance is central to the design of iCrimeFighter.

iCrimeFighter operates as a hardware-neutral Digital Evidence Management System (DEMS) that enables law enforcement, sheriffs, and prosecutors to collect, track, and manage digital evidence from any source without proprietary hardware restrictions.

The platform supports and simplifies your agency's community upload workflows through several core features:

Frictionless Citizen Ingestion

Generates deployment-ready web links and dynamic QR codes that allow citizens to submit large video files and high-resolution images instantly, without requiring account creation or app downloads.

Isolated Malware Defenses

Automatically scans every community file uploaded to a protected container, safeguard your organization’s internal network from ransomware and any other type of malware.

Automated Audit Trails & Hashing

Generates a cryptographic hash value immediately upon upload and automatically logs every subsequent user interaction—creating a tamper-evident, audit-ready activity log designed to support court-admissible chain of custody requirements.

Compliant Sharing Infrastructure

Replaces risky physical discs with safe and time-bound sharing links, making sure that any file being shared with attorneys is still fully audited.
A Note on Shared Responsibility: Although current technology provides an extremely secure environment for technical compliance, general compliance is still a shared responsibility. True data security relies on combining an audited platform with your agency's local operational policies, user access management, and daily workflows. iCrimeFighter delivers the secure technical foundation you need to maintain complete control over your investigative data.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do citizens need to register an account or log in to upload media?

No. An effective law enforcement digital evidence upload workflow relies on zero-account public portals. Forcing citizens to register, verify an email address, or create a password introduces friction that lowers the likelihood that witnesses will submit crucial evidence. With iCrimeFighter, citizens simply click a link or scan a QR code, choose their files, and upload them directly.

How does the system protect our internal agency networks from infected public files?

Files submitted through the public portal are automatically scanned for malware and verified safe before reaching the case. This instant security check stops ransomware and malicious payloads at the door, protecting your agency's network without slowing down your investigation.

Are the original timestamps, locations, and metadata of the media preserved?

Yes. Secure ingestion preserves the native metadata embedded within the file structure. This ensures that critical data points, such as GPS coordinates, original device capture times, and device settings, remain entirely intact for forensic evaluation and evidentiary verification in court.

Can a secure upload link be reused across multiple different cases?

No. For proper organization and case management, investigators create individual and unique links or QR codes for each particular case. This way, all the media uploaded by using this particular link is immediately assigned to the appropriate case number.

What file size limitations exist for citizens uploading large video files?

Citizens can upload individual files up to 5 GB, with a limit of 31 files per submission. Unlike standard email or text messaging, which reject large media, iCrimeFighter easily handles long-form smartphone videos and large batches of high-resolution files in a single transfer.

How do prosecutors access the digital evidence uploaded by the community?

The community uploaded digital evidence, once collected, becomes a part of the digital case file. Access to this file is provided to the prosecutors through permissioned sharing or system integration. This transfer comes along with the whole history of the audit log and cryptographic hashes.

Can an investigator set an expiration date on a public submission link?

Yes, in order to keep control over the process, the investigator may create an expiration window for the upload link or QR code. After the time frame expires (e.g., 48 hours or two weeks), the link becomes inactive.

How does community upload software comply with CJIS and data security standards?

The platform supports CJIS-aligned workflows and helps agencies meet key technical security requirements alongside their own local policies. It achieves this by employing strong encryption for data in transit and at rest, leveraging secure cloud infrastructure, and maintaining tamper-evident, audit-ready activity logs for every interaction within the system.

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