September 2025

These release notes describe all user-facing changes that will be included in the next Axon Records and Standards releases, along with advance notice of major upcoming features, updates, and applications.

There are two releases scheduled for September:

• September 9, 2025
• September 23, 2025

Releases begin rolling out at 11 AM Pacific time and may continue through the following day. We do not expect any downtime during these updates. Please note that availability is subject to change. Depending on the complexity and amount of items included in a release, some items in these notes may not be available until two days after the release.

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Records preview release

This section includes information about upcoming features and updates that are available for testing in training environments. These are beta features, and all functionality may not be fully present or completely reliable.

There are no preview items for Records in September.

Records general release

This section includes information about upcoming features and updates that are available in all production environments.

Report Writer

The following update will be applied to the production environments of all organizations on September 9, 2025.

• Offenses displayed in task inboxes are now displayed in the same order as they are on incident profiles and case inboxes:
  • Offenses with the highest severity (as assigned from the Master Charge Table) are listed first.
  • If an offense does not have a severity, offenses appear in the order in which they were added to the incident.
  • The most recently added offense is shown first, followed by older ones.

Printing

The following update will be applied to the production environments of all organizations on September 9, 2025.

• When printing from an incident overview, a new Select all option is available when you choose Incident Reports.
  • Use the checkbox to select all incident reports listed, and use it again to deselect them if needed.
    

Analytics

The following update will be applied to the production environments of all organizations on September 23, 2025.

• Agencies can now choose to Export Dashboard from the Actions menu on the Analytics dashboard. You'll be able to choose which dashboard to export, along with the format type (e.g., PDF, CSV).
• You can now create bookmarks for dashboards to save and share filtered views. Use the Create Bookmark option in the Actions menu to generate a unique, shareable link with the current filters applied. When someone opens the bookmarked link, the information shown will be determined by the filters applied when the bookmark was created.

Bookings

The following update will be applied to the production environments of all organizations on September 23, 2025.

• Agencies will be able to filter records by inmate status directly from the Bookings search page in the Search module.

Property Management

The following feature will be available for all organizations to use in their production environments on September 9, 2025. Contact your Axon representative to have it activated for your organization.

• Agencies are now able to create pull requests directly from a report.
  •  This will allow users to:
    • Generate a pull request from a report.
    • Automatically include the report’s property items in the pull request.
    • Submit the pull request to the property clerk.
  • Property clerks will receive these as tasks in their inbox, where they can print and complete the request.

The following feature will be available for all organizations to use in their production environments on September 23, 2025. Contact your Axon representative to have it activated for your organization.

• Agencies can now choose to have users document quantities of dollars and coins when adding money as a property item, allowing for more detailed documentation. The total amount for each denomination, along with a combined total, will be automatically calculated.

Form Builder

The following update will be applied to the production environments of all organizations on September 9, 2025.

• You can now customize the display order of checkbox options in your forms, just like dropdown menus.
  • Previously, checkbox options appeared in the order they were originally entered.
  • Now, you can control how they are listed by using the Order field to rank each option. Enter 1 for the option you want to appear at the top of the list, 2 for the next, and so on. Options with higher numbers will appear lower in the list.
    

Records resolved issues

This section includes information about upcoming bug fixes and resolved issues that will be released to all production environments.

Search

The following issue will be resolved on September 9, 2025:

• Previously, finalized and draft versions of the profiles were sorted separately, which could lead to confusion and names not always appearing alphabetically. With this update, finalized and draft profiles will now sort together regardless of the report status.

NIBRS

This section includes information about upcoming updates and bug fixes for NIBRS validation rules, errors, and submissions.

All agencies

The following update has been applied to the production environments of all agencies:

• Ethnicity is now optional for Arrestees, Offenders, and Victims in NIBRS submissions.
  • Previously, Ethnicity was required when adding a person to a NIBRS report. This conflicted with NIBRS reporting standards, where Ethnicity is an optional field for Arrestees, Offenders, and Victims. The system has been updated to remove this requirement, and validation logic has been aligned with NIBRS guidance.

Maryland agencies

The following update will be applied to the production environments of all agencies on September 9, 2025:

• The validation rule for Report Date/Time is being updated to require only that it be the same as or later than the Incident From Date/Time. The Incident To Date/Time is no longer factored into this rule, preventing unnecessary errors when reports are created during an active incident.

Michigan agencies

The following update will be applied to the production environments of all agencies on September 9, 2025:

• Several issues impacting the accuracy of Michigan NIBRS XML submissions have been resolved.
  • These fixes ensure that data present in incident reports and NIBRS is consistently captured in the submission file, including:
    • City/Township/County: Properly populating <msp:LocationCountyCode> and <msp:LocationCityTownshipCode>.
    • Victim Data: Ensuring victim sequence number, age, injury, and offense associations are included.
    • Victim-Offender Relationships: Automatically inserting the required 99 (Unknown) relationship value when offenders are unknown.
    • Property Data: Preventing invalid or disallowed tags and values (e.g., NaN item value) when Property Loss Code is 0 (None) or 9 (Unknown).
  • These changes improve submission success and align with MICR’s reporting requirements. No user action is needed.

Oklahoma agencies

The following update has been applied to the production environments of all agencies:

• A formatting issue has been resolved in the Vehicle Information section of 23F - Theft From Motor Vehicle offenses.
  • Previously, when adding a vehicle with the role set to Recovered and Vehicle Status set to 5 - Recovered, users saw a concatenated validation error in the Additional Vehicle Information section (e.g., “selectedAt” instead of “selected. At…”). This issue has been fixed, and validation messages now display correctly with proper spacing and line breaks.

Standards preview release

This section includes information about upcoming features and updates that are available for testing in training environments. These are beta features, and all functionality may not be fully present or completely reliable.

There are no preview items for Standards in September.

Standards general release

This section includes information about upcoming features and updates that are available in all production environments.

Report Writer

The following update will be applied to the production environments of all organizations on September 23, 2025.

• The Offense/Charges field now includes an infinite scroll. When you select this field, you can now scroll through the entire offense/charge list, rather than the shortened list that was previously displayed.

Case management

The following feature will be available for all organizations to use in their production environments on September 9, 2025. Contact your Axon representative or Axon Support to configure this feature for your organization.

• You can now work with your Axon representative or Axon Support to configure your environment so that a pre-configured case task list is automatically generated for all newly created cases.
  • The task list is generated based on the workflow state and assigned inbox.
  • Automatic case task generation removes repetitive data entry and ensures every internal affairs investigation follows the exact steps required by your organization

Analytics

The following update will be applied to the production environments of all organizations on September 23, 2025.

• Agencies can now choose to Export Dashboard from the Actions menu on the Analytics dashboard. You'll be able to choose which dashboard to export, along with the format type (e.g., PDF, CSV).
• You can now create bookmarks for dashboards to save and share filtered views. Use the Create Bookmark option in the Actions menu to generate a unique, shareable link with the current filters applied. When someone opens the bookmarked link, the information shown will be determined by the filters applied when the bookmark was created.

Form Builder

The following update will be applied to the production environments of all organizations on September 9, 2025.

• You can now customize the display order of checkbox options in your forms, just like dropdown menus.
  • Previously, checkbox options appeared in the order they were originally entered.
  • Now, you can control how they are listed by using the Order field to rank each option. Enter 1 for the option you want to appear at the top of the list, 2 for the next, and so on. Options with higher numbers will appear lower in the list.
    

Standards resolved issues

This section includes information about upcoming bug fixes and resolved issues that will be released to all production environments.

Search

The following issue will be resolved on September 9, 2025:

• Previously, finalized and draft versions of the profiles were sorted separately, which could lead to confusion and names not always appearing alphabetically. With this update, finalized and draft profiles will now sort together regardless of the report status.

Axon DataStore

This section includes information about upcoming changes to the Axon Records and Standards DataStore.

Upcoming deprecations

• Azure Data Studio will be deprecated in February 2026 and will no longer support connections to the Axon DataStore. To maintain uninterrupted access, please begin using Visual Studio Code or SQL Server Management Studio to connect to the DataStore.
  • See MyAxon for more information on connecting with Visual Studio Code or SQL Server Management Studio.