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    Community organizer and KPFA radio host Cat Power speaks at a rally outside the Rene C. Davidson Courthouse in Oakland, Calif., in September 2025.

    How AI-assisted workflows are unlocking California police records

    An AI-powered database offers a model for extracting and structuring police records for public accessibility and accountability reporting.
    By Ethan Toven-Lindsey, Editor-in-Chief (KQED), Tim Olson, Head of Partnerships (KQED) and Ernesto Aguilar, Executive Director of Radio Programming and Content Innovation Initiatives (KQED)
    January 16, 2026
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    How KQED is using AI to explore the future of news audio

    In partnership with Google, KQED and an AI-services provider ran tests to determine how to reduce errors in news audio transcripts and, ...
    By Tim Olson, Head of Partnerships (KQED)
    March 1, 2021

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