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Law Enforcement Artificial Intelligence Amendments
2026 GENERAL SESSION
STATE OF UTAH
Chief Sponsor: Stephanie Pitcher
House Sponsor: Matthew H. Gwynn
LONG TITLE
General Description:
This bill addresses law enforcement agency use of artificial intelligence.
Highlighted Provisions:
This bill:
defines terms;
amends provisions regarding law enforcement agency generative artificial intelligence
policies;
requires a law enforcement agency to publicly post certain information, including the law
enforcement agency's policy concerning the use of generative artificial intelligence; and
makes technical and conforming changes.
Money Appropriated in this Bill:
None
Other Special Clauses:
None
Utah Code Sections Affected:
AMENDS:
53-25-901
, as enacted by Laws of Utah 2025, Chapter 330
53-25-902
, as enacted by Laws of Utah 2025, Chapter 330
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
Section 1. Section
53-25-901
is amended to read:
53-25-901
. Definitions.
As used in this part:
(1)
"Artificial intelligence" means a machine-based system that can, for a given set of
human-defined objectives, make predictions, recommendations, or decisions influencing
real or virtual environments.
(2)
"Generative artificial intelligence" means artificial intelligence technology that is
capable of creating content such as text, audio, image, or video based on patterns learned
from large volumes of data rather than being explicitly programmed with rules.
(3)
(a)
"Oversight or safeguard setting" means a setting included in a generative artificial
intelligence technology that addresses generative artificial intelligence transparency,
content safeguards, or human content oversight or verification.
(b)
"Oversight or safeguard setting" includes:
(i)
a setting that requires a minimum level of human editing before a report or other
document can be marked as complete;
(ii)
a setting that includes an acknowledgment on a report or other document that the
report or other document was drafted by artificial intelligence;
(iii)
a setting that inserts obvious errors into a draft report or other document; and
(iv)
a setting that limits the types of crimes for which the generative artificial
intelligence technology may be used.
(4)
"Technology" means a computer system, device, application, software, hardware,
algorithm, program, camera system, or similar product.
Section 2. Section
53-25-902
is amended to read:
53-25-902
. Use of generative artificial intelligence by law enforcement -- Policy --
Requirements -- Public posting.
(1)
(a)
A law enforcement agency shall have a policy concerning the use of generative
artificial intelligence by employees of the law enforcement agency in the course and
scope of the law enforcement agency's work.
(b)
(2)
The policy described in Subsection
(1)(a)
(1)
shall:
(i)
(a)
be reviewed and, if necessary, updated, on an annual basis;
(b)
include the requirements described in Subsection
(2)
(3)
; and
(ii)
(c)
provide employees of the law enforcement agency with information concerning
the use of generative artificial intelligence, including:
(A)
(i)
which generative artificial intelligence technologies the employees of the law
enforcement agency may use;
(ii)
except as provided in Subsection
(5)
, for each generative artificial intelligence
technology described in Subsection
(2)(c)(i)
, the generative artificial intelligence
technology's available oversight or safeguard settings;
(iii)
for each oversight or safeguard setting under Subsection
(2)(c)(ii)
, whether the
law enforcement agency:
(A)
requires the use of the setting;
(B)
does not use the setting; or
(C)
allows an employee to disable, bypass, or turn off the setting;
(B)
(iv)
the uses and tasks for which generative artificial intelligence is permitted;
(C)
(v)
the importance of reviewing content generated by generative artificial
intelligence; and
(D)
(vi)
an acknowledgment that a violation of the policy described in Subsection
(1)(a)
(1)
may result in administrative disciplinary action by the head of the law
enforcement agency.
(2)
(3)
A written police report or other law enforcement record that was created wholly or
partially by using generative artificial intelligence shall:
(a)
contain within the report or record a disclaimer that the report or record contains
content generated by artificial intelligence; and
(b)
include a certification by the author of the report or record that the author has read
and reviewed the report or record for accuracy.
(4)
(a)
Except as provided in Subsection
(4)(d)
, a law enforcement agency shall publicly
post on the law enforcement agency's website the law enforcement agency's policy
described in Subsection
(1)
, including the information described in Subsection
(2)
.
(b)
If a law enforcement agency does not have a public website, the law enforcement
agency shall post the information described in Subsection
(4)(a)
on the Utah Public
Notice Website created in Section
63A-16-601
.
(c)
A law enforcement agency shall update a public posting required under this
Subsection
(4)
no later than 30 days after the day on which any posted information
has changed or is otherwise no longer current.
(d)
This subsection
(4)
does not apply to prison or jail security, safety, or management,
including internal prison or jail monitoring.
(5)
For purposes of Subsection
(2)(c)(ii)
, a generative artificial intelligence technology does
not include technology that uses generative artificial intelligence for an administrative
task that does not materially impact a law enforcement investigation, such as a
productivity or document management tool or a technology used to check spelling or
grammar.
(6)
A law enforcement agency's failure to comply with the requirements of this section does
not preclude the use of:
(a)
a technology described in this section; or
(b)
information or evidence created with the use of a technology described in this section.
Section 3.
Effective Date.
This bill takes effect on
May 6, 2026
.
2-24-26 4:02 PM