Can Guardify integrate with other platforms?

Yes. Guardify offers a fully-supported Partner API that allows secure transfer of media, metadata, and case information between systems. We work directly with your team to explore and implement the right integration path.

Yes. Guardify is CJIS, HIPAA, and SOC 2 compliant. Our infrastructure is built with layered security, including encryption across the full data lifecycle and background-checked personnel with controlled access to criminal justice information.

Does Guardify track physical evidence?

Guardify is optimized to track digital evidence. Physical evidence can be tracked by uploading a tracking document as an attachment or by using the Case Notes feature when appropriate.

What type of files does Guardify support?

Guardify processes a large library of file types, including many proprietary formats. If a file type cannot be processed, an administrator can preload proprietary players to be packaged with videos when downloaded.

How long is data kept in the Guardify system?

At case close, you can delete the case, archive it for long-term storage, or keep it active. You determine retention rules, and Guardify reporting tools help apply them, including bulk archiving.

What access does Guardify have to user data?

Guardify business employees have no access to your evidence. Developer access is tightly controlled and limited to authorized personnel only.

Do Guardify employees have background checks?

Yes. Background checks are conducted on all Guardify employees. Where state-specific background checks are required, Guardify complies accordingly.

Is Guardify available on my desktop?

Yes. Guardify is accessible in any web browser. For secure bulk uploads, Guardify Connect, the desktop application, enables fast transfers from local devices or cloud platforms.

Is Guardify available on my mobile device?

Yes. Guardify Mobile allows personnel to securely capture, upload, and manage evidence without storing media locally on the device, helping keep officer devices out of discovery.

Is the platform designed specifically for law enforcement workflows?

Yes. Guardify is purpose-built for law enforcement, with role-based access controls, structured case fields, and evidence tools designed for investigative workflows.

Can we securely collect and manage digital evidence from sources like body cams, phones, or civilians?

Yes. Guardify supports bulk uploads, secure evidence requests, and organized intake from body cams, mobile devices, and civilians. The Requested Evidence feature allows secure public submissions without account creation, and Guardify Connect enables fast transfers from local or cloud storage.

Does Guardify support automated transcription and video review tools?

Yes. Guardify uses AI-powered tools for transcription, object detection, redaction, and actionable insights to help investigators surface key evidence faster.

Can we control user access by role, case, or evidence type?

Yes. Role-based permissions allow agencies to customize access by team, role, or case, ensuring proper custodianship and oversight at every stage.

How easily can we share evidence with prosecutors or other agencies?

Evidence can be securely shared with permission-based access. All sharing activity is automatically tracked to maintain full chain of custody from intake onward.

Guardify Reaches 100,000 Users — A Tribute to the Communities Doing the Work

Over 100,000 justice-system and child-serving professionals are now active on Guardify, and most of them aren’t paying customers. Here’s why that matters.

Madison Culhane

Marketing Associate, Guardify

May 18, 2026
3 min read

Key Takeaways

Guardify now supports more than 100,000 active users across child advocacy centers, law enforcement, child protective services, prosecution, defense, and medical professional communities.
The majority of Guardify users are not paying customers but multidisciplinary team partners brought onto the platform by a CAC that licensed it for their community.
Guardify's case management and digital evidence management capabilities run on a single platform designed around the workflows, compliance requirements, and collaboration demands of sensitive case work.
The platform meets HIPAA, CJIS, and SOC 2 requirements and supports evidence handling from intake to outcome with secure access, audit trails, and traceable documentation.
The 100,000-user milestone reflects a model where Child Advocacy Centers extend access to their full multidisciplinary teams rather than working in fragmented systems.

The Announcement

OMAHA, Neb., May 18, 2026 — Guardify® today announced that more than 100,000 justice-system and child-serving professionals are now active on its platform, reflecting the collaborative, community-based nature of the work they do every day.

The majority of those 100,000 users aren’t paying customers. They’re partners. Law enforcement officers. Child protective services investigators. Prosecutors. Defense attorneys. Medical examiners. The multidisciplinary teams that gather around a single child’s case. They’re on Guardify because someone in their community — usually a Child Advocacy Center — chose to share access with them.

“Our customers and the communities we serve come first.”

— Guardify Core Value

That model exists by design. Guardify’s first core value is that its customers and the communities they serve come first. In practice, that means the platform isn’t built to serve only the agency holding the contract. It’s built so a CAC can bring its full multidisciplinary team — the people who pay nothing, but who carry a case to outcome — onto the same trusted system, with the same secure access, the same audit trail, the same confidence in the evidence.

Guardify was built specifically for this work. Its case management and digital evidence management capabilities run on a single platform, designed around the actual workflows, compliance requirements, and collaboration demands of the people who handle the most sensitive cases in the country. Where teams used to juggle disconnected tools — burning DVDs, emailing links, chasing paper trails — Guardify keeps everything secure, traceable, and connected from intake to outcome. For everyone on the case, not just whoever signed the contract.

“This milestone isn’t ours. It belongs to the social service workers who are innovating inside their own communities — the people who decided that a fragmented system wasn’t good enough for the kids and families they serve, and who brought their partners along. Most of our 100,000 users aren’t on a contract with us. They’re here because someone fought to get them here. That’s what this number actually represents.”

— Ben Jackson, CEO, Guardify

The dynamic comes through clearly in a note from a supervisor leading a traveling Child Protection investigation team across rural Alaska — a CPS team using the platform thanks to access shared by their CAC partner:

“Guardify allows the CAC to share crucial case information with my team safely regardless of the location, and I am able to review CAC forensic interviews and medical exams immediately after the CAC appointment. This has been a true game changer in the way the CAC is able to collaborate with us.” — Ben Jackson, CEO, Guardify

That arrangement isn’t unusual. It’s the model. A CAC licenses Guardify, and a CPS investigator 600 miles away can review a forensic interview the same day it’s recorded. A prosecutor builds a case from the same record a defense attorney reviews in discovery. A medical examiner attaches findings without a courier or a thumb drive. The platform doesn’t ask who’s paying.

Guardify will keep deepening the same things that have driven this growth: less friction for multidisciplinary teams, stronger traceable documentation, and full-lifecycle support for sensitive evidence from creation to courtroom. 100,000 users is a marker, not a finish line. But the way it was reached matters more than the number itself. Behind every login is someone in a community who decided to do the harder thing — to coordinate across agencies, to share evidence properly, to bring their MDT onto a system that holds up. Guardify exists to support that decision, every time it gets made.

About Guardify

Guardify gives Child Advocacy Centers, law enforcement, child protective services, prosecutors, defense attorneys, medical professionals, and multidisciplinary teams a single trusted platform to manage, protect, and share sensitive evidence — so they can work with confidence from intake to outcome. The platform meets HIPAA, CJIS, and SOC 2 requirements, and is built to fade into the background of the work it supports.

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Madison Culhane

Marketing Associate, Guardify

Madison Culhane is a Marketing Associate at Guardify who leads the company's webinar program and works across content, social media, and performance marketing. She spends much of her time in conversation with the CAC professionals who make up Guardify's community, and brings a storyteller's instinct to giving voice to the people who show up every day for children and families navigating some of the hardest moments of their lives.

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