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Kashmala Omer Siddiqui

Kashmala Omer Siddiqui works with VIDIZMO's partner channel and directly with customers, helping organizations apply AI to business problems that were previously handled by hand or left alone. Her background is technical: a BSc in Computer Science and Engineering with a minor in Business Analytics from Sabanci University, machine-learning models built to replace trial-and-error experimentation with prediction, and application security work covering access control, authentication, and encrypted communication.

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Staffing a Real-Time Crime Center When Software Does the Watching

Staffing a Real-Time Crime Center When Software Does the Watching

Most chiefs who hear a pitch for a real-time crime center ask the same question before any other, which is whether they will have to hire a room full ...

Planning a Real-Time Crime Center for a Town of 20,000

Planning a Real-Time Crime Center for a Town of 20,000

Chiefs and city managers who read about real-time crime centers usually reach the same point, which is wanting to see what one would look like for a ...

Community Camera Registries: What a City Takes On

Community Camera Registries: What a City Takes On

Most cities are surrounded by far more private cameras than they will ever own, on doorbells, shopfronts, apartment lobbies, parking garages and ...

Getting Camera Alerts to 911 Dispatch When the Center Is Short-Staffed

Getting Camera Alerts to 911 Dispatch When the Center Is Short-Staffed

When a city adds camera analytics, the easiest mistake is to put one more monitor on a telecommunicator's console, and it tends to sour the 911 ...

Fight and Aggressive Behavior Detection: Triage, Not Discipline

Fight and Aggressive Behavior Detection: Triage, Not Discipline

Ask any assistant principal how they learn about fights and the answer is always the same: the crowd. By the time an adult knows, a ring of students ...

Person-Down and Medical Emergencies on Campus

Person-Down and Medical Emergencies on Campus

School safety planning orbits the catastrophic scenarios, and meanwhile the emergencies that actually arrive, year in and year out, are medical: the ...

Investigating a School Incident From Camera Footage

Investigating a School Incident From Camera Footage

A school incident investigation has more audiences than any other kind this platform family serves, and each one changes what the record must be. The ...

FERPA and Camera AI: When Footage Becomes an Education Record

Somewhere in every district deploying camera analytics, a privacy officer is asking the question that this article exists to answer: what does the ...

OSHA Recordkeeping and What Camera Evidence Supports

OSHA Recordkeeping and What Camera Evidence Supports

Recordkeeping is the unglamorous end of workplace safety, right up until the moment it is the entire subject. A questionable entry on the ...

Investigating a Workplace Accident From Camera Footage

Investigating a Workplace Accident From Camera Footage

Every incident investigation begins the same way, with a version of events, and the version is wrong. Not dishonestly wrong, usually, just human: ...

Works Councils, Worker Privacy and the No-Discipline Commitment

Works Councils, Worker Privacy and the No-Discipline Commitment

The most expensive week in a camera-AI project is the one where the safety leader presents the finished plan to the workforce for the first time. By ...

Worker-Down and Fall Detection: What Makes It Reliable

Worker-Down and Fall Detection: What Makes It Reliable

There is a category of workplace event where the harm is decided less by the incident than by the clock that starts after it. A worker who falls from ...

Making a Digital Recording the Official Record

Making a Digital Recording the Official Record

Most guidance about digital court recording assumes the argument is over. It describes microphones, channels, transcription accuracy and retention, ...

Self-Represented Litigants and Digital Evidence: Designing for the Unrepresented

Self-Represented Litigants and Digital Evidence: Designing for the Unrepresented

Nearly every rule, guide, and system a court uses for evidence assumes the person submitting it is a lawyer. Self-represented litigant evidence ...

Sealing, Protective Orders, and Tiered Access to Court Records

Sealing, Protective Orders, and Tiered Access to Court Records

Most systems model access as a binary. A person can see a case or they cannot. Sealed court records access control does not work that way, and the ...

Giving Jurors Access to Admitted Evidence in Deliberation

Giving Jurors Access to Admitted Evidence in Deliberation

Jury access to evidence in deliberation is a narrow technical problem wrapped around a firm legal principle. The principle is that jurors decide on ...

Digital Court Recording: The Half You Have to Budget For

Digital Court Recording: The Half You Have to Budget For

The people who produced the verbatim record are leaving faster than they can be replaced. The US stenographer workforce has fallen roughly 21 percent ...

Exhibits in a Virtual Hearing: Access, Control, and the Record

Exhibits in a Virtual Hearing: Access, Control, and the Record

Courts worrying about presenting evidence in a virtual hearing usually frame it as a conferencing problem. It rarely is. Teams, Zoom, and Webex all ...