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Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office

Document Processing · Security and Compliance

The Contra Costa County District Attorney 's Office works to prevent crime, seek justice, and enhance public safety for the residents of Contra Costa County, California. The office needed to create a new solution to automate sensitive data redaction to comply with a new state Race-Blind Charging mandate.

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1.16 million
10 months
17,000 annual cases with automated redaction of sensitive data
6 Months

Reported impact

Business outcome

Meeting Compliance in 6 Months and Making Unbiased Charging Decisions By working closely with ScaleCapacity and implementing the Race-Blind Charging solution on AWS, the District Attorney's Office deployed an automated solution in six months, faster than the expected ten months.

  • Compliance
  • Productivity Improvement
  • Risk Reduction
  • Scalability

Solution

The Contra Costa County District Attorney 's Office works to prevent crime, seek justice, and enhance public safety for the residents of Contra Costa County, California. The office needed to create a new solution to automate sensitive data redaction to comply with a new state Race-Blind Charging mandate. Automating Sensitive Data Redaction with ScaleCapacity and AWS Generative AI To overcome its challenges, the District Attorney's Office selected ScaleCapacity, an AWS Partner and consulting firm that specializes in justice and public safety solutions. ScaleCapacity is an AWS Public Sector Partner that holds an AWS Generative AI Competency . “We process around 17,000 cases annually and using a manual process wasn’t feasible,” says Mount. “We wanted to adopt an AI-driven solution to automate everything.

Data flow

Data flows from Amazon Textract into Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, is processed by Amazon Bedrock.

Solution architecture

5 components · 4 layers
  1. Ingest
    • Amazon Textract Extracts structured content from uploaded documents for downstream analysis.
  2. Compute
    • Amazon Bedrock Hosts the foundation models and generative AI application logic.
  3. Storage
    • Amazon S3 Stores documents, media, telemetry, or training data durably at scale.
    • Amazon DynamoDB Stores application state and metadata with low-latency access.
  4. Governance
    • Amazon Cognito Manages application authentication and access control.

Evidence from the source

Automating Sensitive Data Redaction with ScaleCapacity and AWS Generative AI To overcome its challenges, the District Attorney's Office selected ScaleCapacity, an AWS Partner and consulting firm that specializes in justi
ScaleCapacity is an AWS Public Sector Partner that holds an AWS Generative AI Competency .
Tasked with Meeting a State Mandate for Race-Blind Charging Contra Costa County is home to an estimated 1.16 million residents and is located in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California.
The Contra Costa County District Attorney 's Office works to prevent crime, seek justice, and enhance public safety for the residents of Contra Costa County, California.
The Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office serves these residents by working to prevent crime, seek justice, and enhance public safety by prosecuting those who violate the law.
The office needed to create a new solution to automate sensitive data redaction to comply with a new state Race-Blind Charging mandate.
Transparency Evidence & methodology 90/100 reference value · 87% confidence · 1 source

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Scoring methodology

How scores are calculated

Customer Reference Value measures usefulness as a customer reference. Evidence Confidence measures the quality and traceability of available evidence, not independent verification.

Customer reference value90/100
  • Problem clarity20/20
    Measures whether the customer's operational problem is specific enough to compare.
  • Implementation depth15/25
    Rewards named components, data flow, integrations, and architecture detail.
  • Outcome specificity20/20
    Measures whether the reported benefit is concrete rather than a generic claim.
  • Quantified impact25/25
    2 metrics describe measurable impact.
  • Deployment scale10/10
    Rewards evidence of a live or scaled deployment and meaningful integration scope.
Evidence confidence87%
  • Source authority20/25
    The main evidence is an official vendor-published customer story.
  • Claim traceability21/25
    10 of 12 key fields link to a named source.
  • Direct evidence20/20
    6 direct source quotes retained.
  • Date provenance8/10
    The publication date comes from publisher-controlled metadata.
  • Source transparency8/10
    1 source reference document publisher, URL, authority, retrieval, and supported fields.
  • Implementation specificity10/10
    Rewards source-backed components, data flow, quantified impact, and a specific outcome.
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Traceability

Sources & provenance

Field coverage shows which facts each source supports. Dates are shown only when documented by the source.

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    Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office customer story

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    https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/contra-costa-county-district-attorney-scalecapacity/
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    Vendor-published customer story
    Published
    Feb 14, 2025
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