Overview
- Heber City’s Draft One system mistakenly folded dialogue from The Princess and the Frog into a body-cam transcript, producing a false report that an officer transformed into a frog, according to Sgt. Rick Keel.
- Heber City began testing Axon’s Draft One and rival tool Code Four in December 2025 and plans to continue the pilot with added oversight following the error.
- Keel said the tools save him about six to eight hours per week, though a staged traffic-stop demo still required substantial human editing before a report was usable.
- Draft One, launched by Axon in 2024, uses OpenAI’s GPT-4 to transcribe body-camera audio and generate draft narratives for officers to review.
- Independent investigations by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and reporters have flagged opaque audit trails and use in serious cases, fueling calls for stricter disclosure rules and legislation such as California’s S.B. 524.