Built by a sergeant, not a software company.

Years on patrol, plus time as a K9 handler, a field training officer, and a range instructor. That's the part of the job where a posse box full of outdated forms is a daily, physical problem, not an abstraction.

Detective assignments across domestic violence, child crimes, and major crimes, including homicide, sexual assault, and robbery. This is where required notices and victim resources stop being paperwork and start being the difference between someone getting help or not.

A degree in IT and a background in digital forensics, paired with a master's in criminal justice currently underway. Enough on both sides — law enforcement and technology — to build this instead of just asking someone else to.

I ran out of resource cards on a call once, standing in someone's living room with nothing left to hand them, right when they needed it most. Three calls earlier, the last card went out, and there's no time to restock between dispatches when you're running from one call to the next.

That's not a one-off. On a busy night my officers are stacking calls back to back, and every one of those calls might call for a different document: domestic violence, elder abuse, identity theft, human trafficking. There's no pulling over to reload. Whatever's in the car when the shift starts is what they've got.

As a sergeant, I'm the one checking whether they handed out what they were required to. I carry extra cards in my own car for exactly this reason, so when someone runs dry mid-shift, I've got them covered. And when someone didn't restock in time, I'm the one who gets the call to bail them out.

By 2026, having that information on hand isn't a luxury. It's an expectation. A victim's right to that information doesn't wait for an officer to get back to the station and grab more cards, and it shouldn't depend on whether a sergeant happened to be carrying spares that day.

New officers usually learn which resource cards to carry from whoever trained them, and that knowledge gets passed down inconsistently, a card here, a habit there, nothing written down. Putting the full library in one place means every new hire starts with the same complete set, not whatever their training officer happened to remember to hand them.

PatrolDocs is piloting with agencies in California, run on the side of a full patrol schedule, on its own time and outside of any official capacity. The plan is to keep it in the field under real conditions before taking it to agencies broadly.