For businesses
Your cameras. Your record.Your decision.
Under the Standard, your records stay in your own account, under your control, and you decide, one request at a time, what to release to a law enforcement agency. A record sealed by a system built to the Standard reads Sealed to the FusionTrace Evidence Standard. This page says what that means for you.
Every pattern an investigator ever finds was first a single incident someone wrote down well, or didn't.
- What the Standard does
- The Standard is about that first record: preserved, structured and sealed, so it is still trustworthy when it matters.
- Why it makes communities safer
- The earlier an incident is documented properly, the sooner it can be connected, by the right people, under the right authority.
- What a system built to it never does
- A system built to the Standard never decides what happened, never labels a person, and never puts a name to anyone from a camera.
What the Standard promises you
You decide. A person always does.
The Standard's eight commitments apply to every record you choose to share. Three matter most to a business.
- The decision is yours. A named person at your business approves or declines each request, one at a time. There is no standing or automatic approval.
- No pressure, no strings. No law enforcement agency can ask or pay you to watch for anyone, and no permit, license or response time may depend on your answer.
- Nothing is sold. No record is sold, and no agency builds a database of faces, plates or people from what you release.
How a request works
Nothing is sold. A business decides, one request at a time, what it releases to a law enforcement agency. The agency sees a record only after a named person at the business approves its request. The release opens the record to the agency for 90 days, and every look in the system that holds it is logged. A copy the agency downloads is kept as long as the case and the law require, and a certified agency commits to log every access to it.
A request names the law enforcement agency, the person asking, the purpose and the record. You approve or decline. If you decline, a certified agency has committed to use legal process, as the law requires, and not to ask a vendor or a network for the same record. When you ask which of your records an agency holds, a certified agency tells you within 30 days. A sealed case or an open investigation can delay the answer, in writing.
If you join a network
The Standard lets a business take part in a network that shares incident records only by its own choice, under written terms, and any widening needs your written acceptance again. In the first implementation today, a location joins the FusionTrace™ Global Network only when its owner signs to join, and a record goes to the network only when a person at the business chooses to share it. Other member businesses see only what was observed, its time and its area.
What the record is
Under the Standard, every record carries one chain: an incident number when you preserve the incident, a case number the first time you share it, and a sealed Evidence Exchange Bundle that carries both. The system assigns the numbers; no person picks or changes them. The law enforcement agency copies your case number into its own system. The Record Chain.
A system built to the Standard seals what your cameras already record. The Standard governs the record, not the hardware.
Who to call
Your provider's name is on the product, and your provider is your first call for anything about it. No provider yet, or yours does not seal to the Standard? Ask your camera or security company to read For vendors. Questions about the Standard itself go to standard@fusiontrace.io.
The type of an incident is the one you record, in your own words.
A shop, a hotel, a restaurant, a lot, a lobby: the rules are the same for all of them. A system built to the Standard never labels anyone.