Ashburn, VA, April 8, 2025—The IJIS Institute, under the guidance of its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Working Group, today announced the release of the Artificial Intelligence playbook for the Justice, Public Safety and Security professionals.

This Playbook is intended to help users in their journey to develop, implement, or utilize AI-based capabilities, which can be used at any point in the adoption lifecycle,

The plays included in the Artificial Intelligence Playbook for Justice, Public Safety, and Security Professionals were designed with the following principles in mind:

• Artificial Intelligence capabilities or functionalities, are built on a set of principles that provide ways for organizations to make better decisions across systems, organizations, jurisdictions, and domains in considering its implementation.
• Taking the if-you-build-it-they-will-come approach often does not work – it can be a costly failure, and it can result in irreversible damage to trust in AI-based capabilities and functionalities. The continuous engagement of the end user, lawmakers, efficacy groups, and community representatives throughout the entire process will increase the probability of success related to AI adoption.
• Policies, Laws, Regulations, and Standards provide guardrails for the ethical and responsible implementation of AI and should be considered in every aspect of the development, training, and implementation of AI-based algorithms, model capabilities, and functionalities. If there is a reason for not following them, then those exceptions should be documented and discussed with the governance body members to reduce associated risks and liabilities.
• Automation, guided training, and self-training are essential to developing AI models; it can significantly improve an organization’s processes and their replication, but human oversight should always be part of the development, implementation, and ongoing monitoring to validate accuracy, reduce bias, and the potential for ethical use issues.
• Throughout the lifecycle, decisions are coordinated and made at the lowest possible level of organizational competency.
• Almost every play is iterative in that initial trials often lead to repetition, but at a higher scale of implementation.

The playbook addresses the needs of the Executives, Operations, Technologists, Chief Information Security Officer/ Chief Privacy Officer (CISO/CPO), Legal Counsel, Governance, External Stakeholders, Human Resources, Finance, Chief Data Officer, and End Users.

This playbook wouldn’t have been possible without the contribution and guidance from the IJIS Institute’s AI working group, which comprises a wide range of professionals from local, state, federal, and international justice, public safety, and security experts to AI industry leaders. It also includes ten (10) national non-profits that represent professionals across all sectors of public safety—law enforcement, prosecutors, corrections, and emergency response.

The playbook will also be part for the various resource available under the Center of Excellence (COE) on Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Justice, Public Safety, and Security (JPSS) that was announced earlier this year and will be updated regularly as more AI-related capabilities and resources are made available for ethical and responsible use within the Justice, Public Safety, and Security mission.

For media inquiries, additional information about the IJIS Institute, or details about the subject matter discussed here, please contact: 

Ashwini Jarral – Advisor

Email: Ashwini.jarral@ijis.org 

Office Phone: (703) 726-1092