Answer records requests without exposing what's exempt

FOIA and state public-records responses

Exemption calls belong to your records officer — what the tool contributes is coverage and permanence. The engine surfaces every identifier in the responsive set so nothing is withheld by luck, the officer approves or rejects each item against the applicable exemption, and the removal is final when the release goes out.

Law-enforcement records releases

An incident report released to the press or a requester keeps officers' names per policy while victim, witness, and juvenile identities come out permanently — including handwritten narrative sections and signatures, which are detected the same way typed text is.

Proactive disclosure and web posting

Meeting minutes, budgets, and inspection reports posted to an agency site are one screenshot away from permanent circulation. Documents bound for the public web get the same review-and-burn treatment as request responses, so what's published is what was decided.

Does the tool decide which FOIA exemptions apply?

No — and it shouldn't. Exemption determinations are your records officer's judgment. Dr. Redact finds the identifiers, your officer decides item by item, and the removal is executed permanently with a documented trail.

Can it process old scanned and typewritten records?

Yes. Pages without a text layer are routed through OCR automatically, so decades-old typewritten reports and photocopied forms get the same detection coverage as born-digital PDFs.

Is there a record of what was withheld from a release?

Every job produces an audit certificate listing what was removed and when — the kind of contemporaneous record that holds up when a withholding decision is appealed.