ZLS.app is a sponsor and presenter at the 2026 NAPD Tech Expo, the National Association for Public Defense’s two-day virtual conference on technology in public defense, held September 17 and 18, 2026. Our session runs Friday, September 18 at 11:30 a.m. Eastern, and it is a live demonstration: one felony case, from day-one assignment through
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
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
The digital tsunami of body-worn camera (BWC) footage has become one of the quietest but most disruptive forces in public defense. You open discovery and find hours of video from five, six, eight different officers—many of them standing in the same place, at the same time, capturing the same scene from slightly different angles. Instead
