Prosecutors Discuss AI for Forensic Identification
Original reporting: El Diario de Juárez
What happened
El Diario de Juárez reports a national prosecutors’ meeting that included AI and forensic-identification proposals.
Reporting and context
El Diario de Juárez reports that Mexico’s federal attorney general, Ernestina Godoy, and prosecutors from the country’s 32 states opened a meeting in Bahía de Banderas, Nayarit, focused in part on proposals for using artificial intelligence in criminal justice work, including forensic identification.
According to the outlet, the 54th plenary assembly of the National Conference on Justice Procurement also addressed joint strategies between federal and state prosecutors’ offices. The reported agenda included protocols for investigating forced disappearance and disappearance by private actors, the National Forensic Data Bank, the Integrated Forensic Capacities System and an investigation manual for extortion.
The Veracruz prosecutor’s office said the following day’s work would include technological innovation, legislative proposals, missing-person searches, information sharing, justice-system reforms and organized-crime-related issues. Prosecutors’ offices in Aguascalientes and Querétaro said the gathering was intended to exchange experience and strengthen institutional coordination. El Diario de Juárez attributes those descriptions to the participating authorities; the source does not report that a specific AI proposal had been adopted.