Auditing and reporting
Once Draft One is enabled, you can see when it has been used by generating an audit trail (Axon Evidence) or audit log (Axon Records and Axon Standards).
You can also generate the following Draft One reports:
- Draft One usage: Shows how Draft One is being used by your organization's users
- AI-Generated Drafts: Lets you access the original AI-generated narrative drafts created through Draft One
Audit trails in Axon Evidence
There are several different entries that appear in the Axon Evidence User, Evidence, and Agency audit trails in relation to Draft One. These entries include the name of the user who created the draft, their IP Address, and the Evidence ID(s) that were used during the draft generation.
| Entry | Audit trail | Description |
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| Draft One request received | User, Evidence |
Occurs when a user generates a draft narrative from either Axon Evidence or Axon Records.
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| Signed for a Draft One liability disclosure | User, Evidence |
Occurs when a user generates a draft narrative then enters their name below the acknowledgment statement before copying the draft or submitting their report for supervisor review.
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| Changed Draft One Settings | User, Agency |
Occurs when a user updates any of the settings on the Draft One Settings page.
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For more information about viewing audit trails in Axon Evidence, see:
Audit logs in Axon Records and Axon Standards
There are several different entries that appear in the Axon Records and Axon Standards user and report audit logs in relation to Draft One.
| Entry | Audit log | Description |
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| Draft One request received | User, Report |
Occurs when a user generates a draft narrative
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| Signed for a Draft One liability disclosure | User, Report |
Occurs when a user generates a draft narrative then enters their name below the acknowledgment statement before copying the draft or submitting their report for supervisor review.
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For more information about viewing audit logs in Axon Records and Standards, see Audit Log Tool.
Usage reports
Although you can view Draft One usage on a per-user, per-evidence, or per-report basis from the audit trail, you can also create a report that displays all Draft One usage in Axon Evidence, Axon Records, and Axon Standards for multiple users.
There are two types of reports you can run, depending on the information you want to retrieve:
- Draft One Report: See overall Draft One usage
- User Audit Trail: See Draft One usage by multiple users for specific evidence items
Draft One report
This report lets you quickly see overall Draft One usage at your organization. You must have the Generate Reports permission in order to access this report.
- Log in to Axon Evidence and select Reports.
- Select Draft One Report.
- Select All Users or Single User.
- Choose a group from the Group menu to set which users will be included in the report.
- Adjust which columns to include.
- Select a report format.
- Choose a date range.
- Select Run Report.
- Once the report has generated, select Download.
If your organization uses Axon Records or Standards, this report includes Draft One usage in those applications in addition to its use in Axon Evidence.
User audit trail report
This report lets you see Draft One usage across users for specific evidence items. You must have the Generate Reports and Generate User Audit Trail Report permissions in order to access this report.
- Log in to Axon Evidence and select Reports.
- Select User Audit Trail.
- Select All Users or Single User.
- Choose a group from the Group menu to set which users will be included in the report.
- Adjust the included ranks and columns as desired.
- Select the CSV report format.
- Choose a date range.
- Select Run Report.
- Once the report has generated, select Download.
- Open the file in Microsoft Excel and add a filter to the top row.
- See Microsoft's help documentation for information about using filters.
- Filter the Action column to show only the desired Draft One activities:
- Draft One Request Received: Shows every time users used Draft One to generate a draft narrative
- Signed for a Draft One liability disclosure: Shows every time users generated a draft narrative then entered their name below the acknowledgment statement to copy the draft
- Reference the Evidence ID and Additional Information columns to see which evidence items Draft One was used on.
This report only includes Draft One usage in Axon Evidence. To view usage in Axon Records or Standards, download an audit log from the Administrator Console.
Original AI-generated draft retention report
In December 2025, Axon will release a new feature that allows you retain and access the original AI-generated narrative drafts created through Draft One. This enhancement supports new legislation that requires organizations to maintain the original AI-generated drafts associated with official police reports.
This feature is designed to support compliance without increasing administrative workload. A new set of Draft One Settings will allow you to choose whether or not to retain the original draft narratives, how long to store them, and under what circumstances they are deleted.
This feature is only available for U.S. and local law enforcement. It will not be available in any other regions at this time.
What is an original AI-generated draft?
The original AI-generated draft is the initial version of the draft generated by Draft One and reviewed by users BEFORE they insert it into Report Writer and begin making edits. (See step 4 in the Generate draft workflow.) Only this original, unedited version is saved. Once a user inserts the original draft into Report Writer and begins making edits, those edited versions are NOT saved.
Some draft content, including auto-inserted obvious errors, headers, and footers are added after the draft is generated by AI. As a result, this content is not included in the original AI-generated draft contents.
Whenever users view or download these original drafts, they are clearly marked as AI-generated, indicating that they are the draft version BEFORE an officer made edits.
Draft One settings
The following new configuration options on the Draft One Settings page control how and when original Draft One narratives are stored and deleted:
- Retain original drafts: This setting lets you turn on the draft retention feature.
- This setting is off by default to avoid automatically storing drafts before an organization has updated its policies or retention schedules.
- Apply evidence retention policy: This setting does not apply to Axon Records or Axon Standards and lets you automatically delete retained drafts whenever the evidence item(s) associated with them are deleted (according to their existing evidence retention policies).
- When this setting is enabled, original drafts are deleted when the associated evidence items reach the end of their retention period.
- If this setting is disabled, drafts are retained indefinitely.
- If your organization uses Draft One in Axon Records, Axon Records drafts are not impacted by this setting and are instead deleted during the expungement workflow.
- If your organization uses Draft One in Axon Standards, because Axon Standards reports cannot be expunged, the associated original AI-generated drafts also cannot be deleted and are retained indefinitely.
These settings are available to administrators with existing permissions for managing Draft One settings. No new roles or permission types are required.
Draft retention in Axon Evidence, Axon Records, and Axon Standards
Original drafts can be accessed from the Reports page in Axon Evidence. Users with the Generate Reports permission can use a new Draft One: AI-Generated Drafts report to download original Draft One drafts.
When generating this report, you can filter by users who have generated Draft One narratives, by evidence items, or by Axon Records reports associated with a Draft One narrative. This report is in TXT format (plain text file) and contains the text of the original AI-generated drafts and relevant metadata.
Draft deletion in Axon Evidence
If you have enabled the Apply evidence retention policy setting, draft deletion in Axon Evidence follows your existing evidence retention settings. When the setting is enabled, drafts are deleted automatically when all associated evidence items are deleted. If a draft was generated using multiple evidence items, it remains stored until all related evidence has been deleted.
If your organization uses Draft One in Axon Records, Axon Records drafts are not impacted by this Apply evidence retention policy setting and are instead deleted during the expungement workflow. If your organization uses Draft One in Axon Standards, because Axon Standards reports cannot be expunged, the associated original AI-generated drafts also cannot be deleted and are retained indefinitely.
Drafts not linked to a specific evidence item cannot be deleted. These drafts are retained indefinitely. Drafts that are not configured for automatic purging remain accessible indefinitely.
Drafts can only be deleted automatically, in conjunction with evidence deletion. If your organization’s policy requires that reports (and their draft narratives) are retained longer than your evidence items, you should NOT enable the Apply evidence retention policy setting and instead opt to retain all draft narratives indefinitely.
Draft deletion in Axon Records
Drafts in Axon Records are deleted as part of the expungement and sealing workflows.
Expungements
When a report or incident is expunged, all associated drafts are automatically deleted.
Seals
If an incident is sealed, the original AI-generated drafts are retained but hidden under the seal, along with the rest of the incident. If a narrative is redacted during a partial sealing workflow, the original AI-generated drafts will be deleted in their entirety. If your organization wants to retain these original drafts, you should download and save them before placing the partial seal.
Draft deletion in Axon Standards
Because Axon Standards reports cannot be expunged, the associated original AI-generated drafts also cannot be deleted and are retained indefinitely.
Audit events in Axon Evidence, Axon Records, and Axon Standards
Several new audit trail events will be added for the user, evidence, and agency audit trails in Axon Evidence, as well as events in the Axon Records and Axon Standards audit log to ensure transparent and accurate logging related to Draft One retention actions:
- The current audit trail logs when a user requests Draft One to generate a draft. This event will stay in place, and a new audit trail event will indicate when that draft has been successfully generated.
- New audit events will track whenever original AI-generated drafts are downloaded.
- New audit events will track whenever original AI-generated drafts are deleted.
- New audit events will track when an administrator modifies the draft retention settings in the Admin Panel.
- These events related to the draft retention settings will only appear in Axon Evidence audit trails and not in Axon Records or Axon Standards audit logs.
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