Contra Costa County District Attorney: Race-Blind Charging automation with Amazon Bedrock and Textract on AWS

Use case typeBusiness process automationUpdated Jun 13, 2026

Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office needed to comply with California Penal Code Section 741 (AB 2778) by redacting race, ethnicity, and other identifying information from police reports and case documents before charging decisions. The office worked with ScaleCapacity, an AWS Partner, to build an AI-driven workflow on AWS that extracts and redacts sensitive information from case materials and fits into the existing clerk upload and attorney review process. The solution supports rapid redaction-rule updates and lets attorneys toggle between redacted and unredacted document views to support usability and review.

Organization
Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office
Industry
Public Sector
Location
United States
Published
May 2026

Reported outcomes

Strategic outcomes

Risk & complianceAchieved race-blind charging complianceSpeed & agilityAccelerated workflow deploymentNew product / capabilityAutomated document redaction workflowBetter decisions & insightEnabled unbiased charging decisions

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  • 1Document Automation
  • 2Compliance Automation
  • 3Workflow Automation
  • A new California Race-Blind Charging mandate required fast redaction of sensitive information from case documents.
  • The office needed to meet a tight compliance deadline without significantly increasing attorney workload or manual redaction effort.
  • Built a Race-Blind Charging workflow on AWS with Amazon Bedrock for generative AI-based anonymization/redaction and Amazon Textract for OCR/text extraction from PDF case documents.
  • Used Amazon S3 for document storage, Amazon DynamoDB for case metadata, and Amazon SES for email notifications.
  • Integrated the solution into the existing case processing workflow and enabled quick updates to redaction rules and document views.
Technologies
Amazon BedrockAmazon TextractAmazon S3Amazon DynamoDBAmazon SES
  • Deployed in six months instead of the expected ten.
  • Met the January 1, 2025 compliance deadline.
  • Reduced manual redaction time and human error.
  • Enabled prosecutors to make unbiased preliminary charging decisions.
  • Processed around 17,000 cases annually with automated redaction.
Implementation partners1
ScaleCapacity
Sources & evidence1
Groundedness: 5/5Type: Customer StoryPublished: May 27, 2026Publisher: AWSEvidence: PrimaryConfidence: High
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