AIFoPa-2025-0003 — AI Police Report-Writing Software Incorporates Dialogue from Disney's "The Princess and the Frog" Into Official Report; Documents Officer Transforming Into Frog
In December 2025, the Heber City Police Department in Utah began testing two AI-powered software products: Draft One, developed by Axon (manufacturer of the Taser and most body camera systems used by U.S. law enforcement), and Code Four, a report-generation tool created by two 19-year-old MIT dropouts. The premise of both products was straightforward: an officer's body camera records an incident; the AI listens to the audio; the AI writes the report. The officer reviews, corrects if necessary, and submits. The goal was efficiency. The goal was largely achieved. Sergeant Rick Keel reports saving six to eight hours per week.
The incident that required correction occurred when an officer responded to a call where Disney's 2009 animated musical comedy The Princess and the Frog was playing in the background. The officer's body camera recorded the encounter. Draft One processed the audio. Draft One did not distinguish between the events of the police call and the events of the film. Draft One incorporated the film's narrative into the official police report. The report stated that the officer had transformed into a frog.
The department issued a correction. The correction noted that the department does not, and has not at any time, employed amphibious officers. Sergeant Keel attributed the error to the body camera software and the AI report-writing software jointly failing to identify which audio was relevant to police business and which was relevant to a story about a jazz musician in 1920s New Orleans who is kissed by a princess and briefly becomes an amphibian. He described this as a learning experience. The department will continue using the software.
Draft One is built on OpenAI's large language models. It has been adopted by law enforcement agencies across the country. Expert observers have noted, in connection with this and similar tools, that a frog transformation is easy to catch. The concern they raise is about the hallucinations that are not easy to catch: the plausible ones, the subtle ones, the ones that add a word like "aggressive" or "threatening" to a description of a suspect's behavior, which an officer reviewing quickly might not correct, and which then become part of the permanent legal record. These incidents are not filed here because they have not yet surfaced as documented cases. The Bureau is watching.