AI for public defenders is arriving one tool at a time, and that pattern carries a cost most offices never put in the budget. NACDL’s new white paper, Parity in Practice: The Defender’s Duty to Ethically Use AI, argues that defenders have an ethical obligation to close the technology gap with prosecutors. It also, without
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
