State Investigative Agency Improves Efficiency with Search Warrant Generation

Introduction

A statewide criminal investigative agency is responsible for conducting criminal investigations and supporting law enforcement agencies across its jurisdiction. One of its top priorities is addressing Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) — a growing threat to public safety. Every year, the agency receives thousands of cyber tips and issues hundreds of ICAC-related warrants.

Business Need

The agency faced growing operational challenges in processing ICAC cases due to the manual effort required to generate search warrants. Investigators spent significant time gathering information from disparate systems, referencing prior reports, and articulating complex legal justifications for each warrant. This process demanded deep domain expertise and often involved multiple review cycles, leading to delays in critical investigations. Additionally, a lack of standardization across warrant templates made it difficult to ensure consistency, compliance, and repeatability. Small mistakes such as missing information or incorrect references could lead to rejected warrants or delayed approvals.

With a growing backlog of over 3,000 uninvestigated cyber tips, the agency needed a solution to accelerate investigative workflows, minimize manual effort, and streamline warrant generation.

The Solution

To address these challenges, the agency partnered with C3 AI to implement C3 AI Document Generation for Search Warrants to streamline warrant generation for two key ICAC warrant types — online service provider (OSP) and residence search warrants. In just four months, the C3 AI team integrated data from case files, agent notes, cyber tips, and agent backgrounds and ingested 1,000+ historical warrants with supporting documentation. The initial production deployment focused on enabling search functionality across unstructured investigative materials and automating the generation of legally compliant warrants.

Results

C3 AI Document Generation for Search Warrants significantly improved operational efficiency for the agency. By automating the ingestion and retrieval of relevant case materials, the solution reduced the warrant generation time by more than 50%. This enabled investigators to process more cases in less time, accelerate investigations, and improve coordination with judicial partners. With routine tasks streamlined, investigators are now able to focus on higher-value investigative work, such as case analysis, suspect tracking, and victim identification.

C3 AI Document Generation for Search Warrants empowers the agency to scale its workflows and handle high volumes of search warrants with greater speed and efficiency — advancing the agency’s mission to protect the most vulnerable across its jurisdiction.

About the Agency

• 600+ full-time staff, including special agents, forensic scientists, analysts, and support personnel
• 1,000+ public tips received annually
• Partner in National Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force since 2000

Project Highlights

• 15 weeks from project kickoff to production-ready application
• 2 warrant types (online service provider and residence search warrants) in-scope
• 1,000+ historical ICAC warrants and supporting documentation integrated
• 50%+ reduction in time to generate search warrants