If you have ever tried to reconstruct a crucial exchange from a jail call or a chaotic body‑worn camera clip, you know the problem. Multiple voices, overlapping audio, poor quality, and a generic transcript that reads “SPEAKER_00,” “SPEAKER_01,” and “SPEAKER_02” down the page. It is technically a transcript, but it is not yet advocacy‑ready. Public
There’s a particular kind of dread that comes with a discovery packet containing six hours of CCTV footage. No audio. No timestamps you can trust. Just a timestamp counter and the quiet resignation that someone has to scrub every second of it. In 2024, Colorado’s Office of the State Public Defender found digital evidence in
ZLS.app is excited to join Hunter Parnell on the Public Defenseless podcast for a wide-ranging conversation on how public defense leaders can better use data to tell their own stories and drive change in their jurisdictions. The episode focuses on a question that comes up repeatedly in our work with defender offices: “What story could