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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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Users
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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.
Decorative icon: iCrimeFighter: innovation in evidence management for law enforcement.
1,000,000
Files added weekly
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5,000+
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.
Why law enforcement loves iCrimeFighter too!

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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Built by officers expanded for prosecuting attorneys. iCrimeFighter can help you streamline your workflow.
Built by officers expanded for prosecuting attorneys. iCrimeFighter can help you streamline your workflow.
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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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Single evidence window
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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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Comprehensive chain of custody history, tracking lifecycle from collection to courtroom presentation.
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Store as many files as your case needs, no matter the size.
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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.

Digital Evidence Management System

Law enforcement agencies are facing an operational tipping point. While traditional physical evidence rooms, packed with handguns, narcotics, and latent print cards, continue to require rigorous tracking, it is the invisible, high-volume digital universe that is causing administrative bottlenecks. Today's evidence managers are forced to run two distinct logistical operations: one rooted in warehouse management, and the other in secure cloud infrastructure.

This creates significant challenges for detectives, evidence technicians, and prosecuting attorneys managing this relentless daily volume of case media. Critical digital evidence often ends up scattered across an untidy mix of outdated CDs, local precinct servers, unsecured USB drives, and even personal cloud accounts.

When digital evidence is this disorganized, the stakes are incredibly high. Cases can be dismissed due to missed discovery deadlines, chain of custody gaps can make critical digital evidence useless in court, and investigators waste hundreds of hours manually burning discs or physically driving flash drives over to the DA's office.

A modern Digital Evidence Management System (DEMS) fixes this chaos. It serves as a secure, centralized hub for all digital media, streamlining how agencies upload, store, and safely track digital evidence from the moment it’s collected to the day it goes to court.
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What Is a Digital Evidence Management System?

In public safety, a digital evidence management system is the backbone of an investigation, tracking and preserving digital evidence from the crime scene to the courtroom. While these systems once simply tracked cardboard boxes in a physical property room, the job has changed. Today, "evidence management" is almost entirely digital, though modern platforms still link back to those physical property databases.

This is where a Digital Evidence Management System (DEMS) comes in. Rather than just a place to dump files, a DEMS acts as a secure command post built specifically for prosecuting attorneys’ workflows. It streamlines how digital media is collected, standardizes file organization into court-ready folders, and supports secure, fully audited sharing with legal teams.

Crucially, a professional DEMS goes far beyond standard consumer cloud storage. Platforms like Dropbox or Google Drive lack the specialized security architecture, retention workflow support, and verifiable chain of custody tracking required to withstand formal scrutiny during discovery or courtroom review.

Physical Evidence vs Digital Evidence Management

While physical property and digital evidence often belong to the same case file, they present entirely different operational challenges and require different tracking approaches.

Operational Metric

Physical Evidence Tracking

Digital Evidence Management (DEMS)

Primary Medium

Physical items like weapons, drugs, biological samples, and paper documents.
Electronic files like body-worn camera footage, CCTV, photos, and forensic extractions.

Tracking Method

Barcode or RFID labels placed directly on boxes, bags, or tags.
Modern platforms should offer automated cryptographic hashing (such as SHA-256) to verify that files remain uncompressed and unaltered over time, a critical feature agencies ought to evaluate when selecting a system.

Storage Constraint

Limited physical square footage in a secure warehouse, requiring active climate control.
Secure cloud storage (such as AWS GovCloud) scalable to petabytes of data.

Transfer Method

Physical hand-offs, requiring sign-offs on paper or signature pads at every step.
Time-bound, secure sharing links sent directly to authorized legal personnel.

Disposition Process

Physical destruction (incineration, shredding) or return to the rightful owner.
Automated file deletion or cold-storage archiving based on case retention schedules.

Why Public Safety Agencies Need a Modern Digital Evidence Management System

Continuing to rely on outdated processes, like burning DVDs, mailing USB drives, or leaving digital files scattered across offline drives, introduces severe vulnerabilities to the judicial process.

The Critical Bottleneck of Prosecutor Handoffs

When digital evidence is transferred from police departments to prosecutors stalls, agencies risk missing critical statutory discovery deadlines. Relying on physical media transports or emailing unencrypted file links exposes sensitive case assets to potential security breaches.

A modern DEMS creates a direct, secure bridge to the District Attorney's office. Prosecutors gain immediate access to fully organized case files, accelerating initial case intake and helping prevent missed or incomplete discovery materials, depending on jurisdiction and case requirements.

Streamlining Public Submissions

Historically, collecting photos and videos from citizens or businesses involved manual detective work. Investigators had to physically visit locations to copy security footage onto thumb drives or ask witnesses to email files directly, compromising privacy. A modern digital evidence management platform allows agencies to generate secure upload links or QR codes. Citizens can securely upload their footage directly into a designated case folder without needing access to the rest of the department's network.

Securing the Chain of Custody

During court proceedings, defense teams carefully examine how digital evidence was handled throughout its lifecycle. Without an immutable log tracking every individual who accessed, duplicated, downloaded, or shared a file, digital evidence becomes vulnerable to handling questions or chain of custody challenges. Digital evidence management systems address this by automatically logging every user interaction.

Core Capabilities to Evaluate

When assessing any DEMS, agencies must look past basic file-hosting features and evaluate specific, public-safety-grade capabilities:

Intake & Collection Flexibility

Officers should be able to upload files directly from the field using secure mobile apps, desktop clients, or web browser interfaces. The software needs to support a wide variety of formats, including proprietary CCTV codecs, heavy high-definition video, audio files, and PDFs, without requiring specialized desktop media players for basic playback. Agencies should ensure the system allows users to manually input essential metadata, case numbers, and incident details during upload, rather than assuming files will automatically tag themselves.

User-Added Metadata & Search

When searching for proof, there should be no need to find a needle in a haystack. It must be possible to add case number, suspect’s name, category of the event and even custom labels to the documents. Filters must be very strong in order to show needed files instantly.

Secure Sharing Protocols

Instead of exporting the files to an external drive, the system needs to offer secure, timed sharing links. Admins will be able to control access, revoke any link and monitor exactly when external users such as the defendant’s legal representatives access the files.

Unalterable Audit Logs

All activity done on a file, including uploading, viewing, changing folders and names, sharing, and deleting, must be entered into an immutable audit trail, along with the exact user, timestamp, IP, and device.

Retention & Automated Purging

While digital storage is easy to scale, it is far from limitless and is expensive. An effective system can help track local retention laws and statuses and notify admins when the files are eligible for archiving or complete purging.

How Digital Evidence Management Systems Support Law Enforcement and Prosecutors

A unified digital evidence management system streamlines workflows across the entire justice system, from the initial 911 call to the final courtroom verdict.

For Patrol Officers & Sheriffs' Deputies

Rather than returning to the station after an extensive shift and transferring their files from portable devices to computers, patrol officers will now be able to send their digital discovery directly from the field. Using secure mobile applications, they will be able to photograph an incident, capture audio from statements, and send their files directly to the cloud in real time.

For Detectives & Investigators

Investigators can consolidate all their case material into one digital case file. Rather than needing to log in to numerous platforms such as video servers, forensic applications, and internal shared network folders, they will only need one platform to organize their case material and collaborate securely with other organizations on jurisdictional cases.

For District Attorneys & Legal Staff

Prosecutors frequently complain about receiving incomplete case files or having evidence arrive in piecemeal fashion. A dedicated DEMS gives legal teams immediate access to complete case files, directly from the submitting police department. Direct sharing features make it easy to manage discovery requirements and securely disclose files to defense attorneys while tracking every view for disclosure compliance.

How iCrimeFighter Fits Into Your Security and Workflow Evaluation

Evaluating a digital evidence management system requires balancing high-level security controls with day-to-day usability for officers in the field. This is exactly where iCrimeFighter stands out.

iCrimeFighter is a highly secure, hardware-neutral Digital Evidence Management System (DEMS) built to simplify workflows for law enforcement agencies and prosecutors' offices. Because it is completely hardware-neutral, agencies are never locked into proprietary body camera or dashcam brands. It seamlessly integrates files from any source into a single, highly organized platform.

By utilizing iCrimeFighter, agencies can leverage:

Safe mobile uploads from the field

Officers can capture photo, audio, and video on their mobile devices and upload them directly to a secure cloud folder. This helps reduce reliance on unmanaged local storage and manual transfers, keeping sensitive case media off personal device storage.

Simple witness uploads

Gathering community footage is straightforward and efficient. Instead of tracking down witnesses in person, officers can provide a secure upload link or QR code, depending on agency workflow, allowing citizens to submit their media directly into the designated case file.

Effortless sharing with the DA

No more burning DVDs or physically driving thumb drives over to the prosecutor's office. You can send secure, time-sensitive digital folders in seconds, while the system automatically generates an audit-ready activity record that supports chain of custody documentation.

CJIS-Supported Architecture

Built on cloud infrastructure configured to support CJIS-aligned and SOC 2-oriented security controls, including role-based access permissions, multi-factor authentication (MFA), and permanent audit trails. Rather than relying on cloud hosting alone to ensure compliance, this framework provides the technical safeguards agencies need to satisfy stringent security mandates.
Instead of dealing with several disparate digital evidence storage solutions, iCrimeFighter consolidates all digital evidence, secures your chain of custody, and saves investigators hundreds of hours.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the difference between an RMS and a DEMS?

An RMS is a digital filing cabinet for paperwork like police reports and logs. A DEMS is built for the heavy lifting, viewing, storing, and sharing massive media files like body cam video and phone dumps, while keeping a flawless, court-ready track record of who accessed them.

Can digital evidence be stored securely in the cloud?

The modern public safety systems use a secure cloud-based system for storing digital evidence that meets CJIS (Criminal Justice Information Services) requirements and SOC 2 security principles. The data is encrypted while uploading and saving in the cloud.

How does secure sharing work for prosecutors?

Instead of burning physical files to DVDs or USB drives, a DEMS allows law enforcement to generate a secure, trackable sharing link or directly transfer the files within the system. The prosecutor receives access to a secure, web-based portal. The system logs the exact timestamp when the prosecutor views, downloads, or shares the files, maintaining an unbroken digital chain of custody.

How do modern systems handle citizen-submitted video?

Investigators can email a unique upload link directly to a witness or provide a QR code for secure file uploads.. The witness is then able to upload their media straight into the case file. This keeps the witness’s personal device private and completely blocks public access to your internal network.

Can we transition our older archived files into a new DEMS?

Yes. Professional digital evidence software vendors can migrate your files from old servers or hard drives into the new cloud. They match up your old metadata and preserve original file fingerprints, ensuring your historic chain of custody remains perfectly intact.

Every piece of digital evidence. One place.

BWCs, mobile extractions, photos, and more. One secure platform with a complete audit trail.
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