ChatOps
One place for a short operation's records.
ChatOps is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by the federal Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force Program or any related program.
Coming soon. Capture is available now, and agencies that want ChatOps can say so in an access request to hear first when it ships.
Operations that run a few days generate the same paperwork as long ones, usually in scattered spreadsheets and folders. ChatOps keeps subjects, assignments, and documentation together from the first day to the after-action.
What it handles
- Subject and case records
- Structured records for each subject and case, with photos and supporting material attached where they belong instead of in a shared drive.
- Assignments
- Who is working what, visible to the people running the operation, so coverage gaps show up during the operation rather than after it.
- Deconfliction
- Checks within the operation that flag overlap between investigators before it becomes a problem.
- Briefing documents
- Generates the briefing and summary paperwork an operation needs from the records already entered, rather than retyping them.
- Backup and recovery
- Built-in backup of the case store, integrity checks, and recovery tools for when a drive or a folder goes missing mid-operation.
- Encryption at rest
- Optional AES-256 encryption of the case database, with the key held in the Windows credential store.
Per-user sign-in is planned for a future release.
Where the data lives
On your equipment. ChatOps stores its case data in a folder you choose: a local drive, a network share, or agency-managed storage if that is where your records already live. Nothing is sent to us, and there is no vendor-hosted copy of your cases.
That is deliberate. A vendor holding criminal justice information is a vendor inside your CJIS footprint, with everything that follows. This tool is built so we never touch it.
Requirements and pricing
ChatOps installs on 64-bit Windows 10 and 11 and is designed to run on the field laptops agencies already have. Requirements, documentation and pricing will be released to verified agency personnel when it becomes available.