LEO Technologies in policing
Every deployment of LEO Technologies technology by a law enforcement or justice body currently recorded on the tracker, across 1 country. Each entry is tied to a published source and carries the date it was last checked.
A deployment can involve more than one supplier. This page indexes entries where LEO Technologies is the principal named supplier; the full vendor detail on each entry below remains the fuller answer.
Deployments
US Florida DOC; Georgia DOC; and county jails in CA, MO, TX, NY, LA AI Prison Communications Monitoring (Verus) Operational
- Legal basis
- No dedicated statute; US courts have given wide scope to surveil prisoner calls for safety/crime prevention; all parties are notified calls are monitored
- Oversight
- None identified externally
Transcribes prisoner telephone calls at scale using Amazon Transcribe plus keyword and semantic analysis, flagging calls for investigators. Now extended (Aug 2026) into continuous voice-identity tracking, which alerts when a caller's voice does not match the person assigned to the PIN used, and into AI video analysis for facility monitoring. Florida DOC paid $2.5m from Aug 2023 for up to 50 million minutes/year; Georgia DOC monitored 7.5m+ calls by April 2021, flagging 1,612 as showing evidence of criminal activity; company reports 65m+ calls/year across seven states. A Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation found the system used beyond its stated gang/violence rationale, including flagging a call reporting a COVID outbreak and one about unemployment benefits, and reportedly configured to flag Spanish words for 'lawyer' -- raising a legal-privilege concern. Differs from the existing seized-device analysis entry in this category by monitoring live telephone infrastructure continuously and at population scale, including family members who have not been convicted of anything.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation; Biometric Update · last checked 2026-08-26