The right call.
At the right time.
Most cases are reviewed too late. Intake fixes that - putting prosecutors in the conversation before arrests, where case quality, costs, and outcomes are actually determined.
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The arrest decision is the most consequential moment in the justice system. Intake puts a prosecutor side by side with law enforcement to ensure that arrests result in convictions.
Most jurisdictions do not involve a prosecutor in the pre-trial process until after an arrest. Research on the U.S. pretrial system indicates that this process carries a significant cost in wasted resources, wrongful bookings, and charges that do not withstand prosecutorial review.
Our current Texas pilot is already proving the model - see it in action.
Intake changes the sequence by bringing prosecutorial review to the moment of arrest. Before any arrest is made, the responding officer calls a prosecutor hotline. The call averages 90 seconds. The prosecutor reviews the facts of the case inside the Intake platform - seeing only the legal elements, not the race or gender of the person involved - and returns one of four decisions: Accept, Deny, Hold, or Needs More Information.
If the case is accepted, the arrest proceeds. Charges are sent directly to the court the same day, with a complete audit trail locked at every step. If the case is denied, the officer can release the suspect - before anyone is booked unnecessarily, and before money and time is spent jailing anyone on a charge that will not ultimately be prosecuted.
Harris County, Texas has operated this model since 1977. They run the most efficient prosecution office and the highest arrest-to-prosecution rate of any of the 25 largest counties in the United States - a result attributed in part to the efficiency of pre-arrest screening. Justice Innovations has built the software to bring that model to jurisdictions across the country.
Officers arrest. Prosecutors decide if charges hold.
Officers are trained to respond to scenes - not to navigate what makes a charge legally prosecutable. Some laws are unenforceable as written. Others carry warrant requirements, affirmative defenses, or exceptions that officers may not know. A prosecutor knows all of this, in real time, before the handcuffs go on.
Without pre-arrest screening, cases get filed and dropped after the fact - but only after the person has been booked and often spends weeks in jail on a charge that will not survive prosecutorial review. The waste is measurable: 2–5 hours of officer time, 0.5–1 hour of prosecutor time, and an average of 36 nights in county custody.
Not counting: wrongful arrest lawsuits, administrative time, or tragedies avoided.
Sources: Bureau of Justice Statistics, NALP, TDCJ.
From the scene to the courthouse - every step documented.
🔒 Locked files are preserved as-submitted to ensure the audit trail cannot be challenged.
See Intake in action.
A real case. A real decision.
Every field structured, every flag surfaced, every timestamp recorded - before a single charge is filed.
Everything the process needs. Nothing it doesn't.
Cloud-based, paperless, and built by prosecutors who spent careers successfully deploying this system. Every feature exists because a real workflow demanded it.
Outcomes that matter to the system - and the people in it.
Our current Texas jurisdiction pilot runs April through July 31, 2026. Every metric below is tracked against a 10-year historical baseline, with statistical testing designed to produce grant-defensible, peer-reviewable results.
What jurisdictions without Intake are paying for.
Not counting: wrongful arrest lawsuits, indigent defense, administrative time, or averted tragedies.
Sources: Bureau of Justice Statistics, NALP, TDCJ.
Harris County has run prosecutor-guided intake since 1977. Miami-Dade has not. By 2008, the cost of that difference - measured only in salary waste from dropped cases - had grown to over $20 million per year in Miami-Dade. Harris County's comparable figure remains near zero.
Current Texas Jurisdiction
Our current Texas jurisdiction pilot is Intake's first deployment - structured as a rigorously designed evaluation with historical baselines, statistical testing plans, and metrics designed for grant oversight and peer review.
Our current Texas jurisdiction currently has 1,093 people in jail, 851 of whom are awaiting trial. Based on U.S. averages, a 25% reduction in the pretrial population - the documented result of pre-arrest screening adoption - would mean 212 people released and an estimated $4,659,225 in annual savings for the county.
The pilot covers DUI and Domestic Violence cases - two of the highest-volume, highest-stakes offense types in any jurisdiction. It involves three agencies and is designed to generate the kind of data that can support expansion to other counties and other states.
Texas Counties: Evaluate Intake at No Risk
Texas counties can now participate in a structured, no-risk evaluation of the Intake platform, designed to produce the grant-ready data, peer-reviewable outcomes, and county-specific return-on-investment analysis that procurement and legislative cycles demand.
Our current Texas jurisdiction pilot demonstrated that pre-arrest prosecutorial screening can reduce the pretrial jail population by 25% or more. Cohort counties receive the full evaluation framework, 10-year historical baselines, and grant writing support - built in from day one, not added at the end.
Joining the cohort is not a commitment to full deployment. It is a structured opportunity to evaluate the platform against your county’s actual data, build the evidence base for grant applications, and position your jurisdiction ahead of state and federal funding cycles.
- Full Intake platform access for the evaluation period
- County-specific ROI model built on your jail population and cost data
- 10-year historical baseline analysis for grant and legislative reporting
- Grant writing assistance - aligned to TJD, OJP, and BJA funding cycles
- Peer-reviewable evaluation design with statistical testing plan
- TCOLE- and CLE-certified training for officers and prosecutors
- Priority onboarding and dedicated implementation support
- Access to SciLaw research team for methodology review
- Pretrial jail population reduction - tracked against 10-year baseline
- Time to prosecutor decision - average and median, by shift and offense type
- Taxpayer cost avoidance - monthly and cumulative, fully loaded
- Case quality and evidence completeness scores
- Approval and denial rates by offense type and demographic subgroup
- No Action rate reduction vs. pre-pilot baseline
- Court docket and nolle prosequi rate impact
- Officer submission quality improvement over time
The Center for Science and Law (SciLaw)
SciLaw is an independent 501(c)3 justice-tech nonprofit based in Houston, Texas. Where Justice Innovations builds and deploys the software, SciLaw provides the academic foundation - research in neurolaw, human decision-making, ethical data science, and criminal justice outcomes that informs every design decision we make.
The two organizations share leadership and a mission: to understand the science of how humans make decisions under pressure, and to build systems that make those decisions more accurate, more consistent, and more defensible in court.
SciLaw's research is published openly. Our current Texas jurisdiction pilot evaluation is designed to produce peer-reviewable data - not internal marketing metrics. When the results come in, they will be available to the field.
- Neurolaw - the neuroscience of human decision-making in legal contexts
- Ethical data science in criminal justice applications
- Pretrial population analysis and pretrial reform evaluation
- Accountability frameworks for prosecutorial decision-making
- Policy analysis for reoffender reduction and public safety outcomes
- Behavioral research on officer and prosecutor decision patterns
The science behind the software.
Intake is the software embodiment of a process that Harris County, Texas has been running since 1977 - with 45 years of data behind it. Every feature, every workflow decision, and every metric we track is grounded in published research and empirical evidence.
45 years of proof.
The results of over four decades in Harris County are unambiguous: when a prosecutor reviews a case before the arrest, the system produces fewer wrongful bookings, stronger cases against the guilty, better-trained officers, and dramatically lower pretrial jail populations.
Compare the Harris County “No Action” rate (charges filed and then declined to prosecute) to Miami-Dade County or New Mexico over the same period. Harris County is near zero, while counties without pre-arrest screening see it balloon to 40% or more of all charges filed.
We built Intake to make that 45-year Harris County track record replicable anywhere in the country.
A “No Action” case is one filed with the court but ultimately declined to prosecute - an arrest and booking that resulted in nothing.
Data: GTX weekly data, jurisdictional comparison studies. Source documents available on request.
The science.
Every feature in Intake is grounded in peer-reviewed research. The studies below are conducted by the Center for Science and Law (SciLaw), our 501(c)3 research partner.
View All SciLaw Publications →CJIS Compliant by Design
The Intake platform is engineered to meet Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Security Policy requirements. Every component from data transmission to access control is built to operate within CJIS- and FedRAMP-governed environments. Full compliance documentation is available upon request.
A complete operational transition.
Platform, training, legal reference materials, and operational infrastructure - delivered as a complete package. Up and running in days, not weeks.
- 24-hour Intake & Screening Facility - procedures and logistics
- Model District Attorney Manual section for 24-hr Intake & Screening Division
- Model PD General Orders reflecting new Intake & Screening Procedures
- Prosecutor Training - CLE outline (TCOLE and CLE certified)
- Police Training - TCOLE outline - 15 total days of instruction
- Grant writing assistance
- IT support that doesn't require a translator
- Compliance paperwork for police and county jail accepting prisoners
- Annotated charges and pleadings database
- Penal Code - relevant sections with annotations
- Code of Criminal Procedure - relevant sections with annotations
- Search and Seizure case law - Traffic Stop rules and case law
- Affirmative Links case law - Common Defenses, Justifications, and Exceptions
- High Bond and Blood Search Warrant Templates
- Magistrates Order for Emergency Protection templates
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