DOJ · DOJ-0288 · record R1713

Immigration Case and Filing Content Summary

Department of Justice · Department of Justice / EOIR

Overview

Development stage: In development or acquisitionSource: a) Pre-deployment – The use case is in a development or acquisition status.
High-impact designation: High-impactSource: a) High-impact
Impact justification: Not reported
Start date: Not reported
Withheld from public reporting: NoSource: a) No

Mission

Topic area: Law Enforcement
Operational functions: Summarization Derived by keyword rules; see methodology

Problem the AI is intended to solve

EOIR legal support staff and adjudicators review voluminous filings in EOIR immigration proceedings, sometimes ranging into hundreds of pages for a single filing, and parties to proceedings do not organize content clearly or at all, which hinders review and processing by EOIR personnel to adjudicate the case. EOIR legal staff organize, review and categorize documentation submitted, and many of these administrative functions could be automated. In addition, EOIR's legal education and training team spends hours reading and summarizing immigration case law to prepare agency trainings and informational materials.

Expected benefits

Technological assistance with research so adjudicators and legal support staff may focus their time and attention on utilizing their decision-making skill sets on legal analysis and drawing legal conclusions in an efficient manner. Decrease time and labor required for processing filings, reviewing filings, categorizing cases, and locating relevant content in filings, which improves the efficiency of the immigration proceedings. Decrease time and labor for reading and preparing immigration law trainings and informational materials.

System outputs

Summaries of court filing contents with references to the source of information within the summary. Tabbing, labeling, and identifying submission types within voluminous court filings. Information pointers to EOIR adjudicators and legal support staff regarding where specific content most relevant to the adjudicator’s inquiry is located within the record. Summaries of immigration case law and other relevant legal authorities.

Technology

AI classification: Generative AISource: Generative AI: AI that generates new or synthetic content (e.g., images, videos, audio, text, code).
System name(s): Not reported
Custom-developed code: Not reported
Public source code: Not reported

Sourcing

How it was built: Not reported
Vendor (as reported): Not reported
Vendors (standardized): None on the standard list

A vendor is the supplier named by the agency. It does not identify the underlying model or AI technology.

Data and privacy

Involves PII: Not reported
Privacy Impact Assessment: Not reported
Authorization to Operate: Not reported
Demographic features: Not reported
Training and evaluation data: Not reported
Federal Data Catalog: Not reported

Governance

0 of 8 minimum-practice questions answered. A blank answer means the agency reported nothing; it does not mean the practice is absent.

Pre-deployment testingNo answer reported

AI impact assessmentNo answer reported

Independent reviewNo answer reported

Ongoing monitoringNo answer reported

Operator trainingNo answer reported

Fail-safeNo answer reported

Appeal processNo answer reported

User and public consultationNo answer reported

Potential impacts and how they were identified

Not reported