What do the cities of Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Baltimore, and Jacksonville all have in common? They all trust Logikcull to streamline their public records request workflow, and it just got a major upgrade.

Today, Reveal announced the release of Logikcull for Public Records, a unified request-to-disclosure workflow purpose-built for state and local government and education. This launch expands Logikcull's public records capabilities to include a request intake portal and specialty review and redaction features.  

Logikcull for Public Records is available now in early access, with broad availability coming in Q3.

Read the full press release.  

Addressing the Records Request Surge with One Simple Workflow

Across the United States record requests have skyrocketed, placing undue burden on the lean teams handling records response and ensuring compliance with sunshine laws. There are more requests, more data to comb through, and more complex data types entering the scope (think bodycam footage, Slack messages, and ChatGPT logs), all while government scrutiny mounts. To confront these challenges most teams have been forced to choose between request-tracking portals that are isolated from review platforms and overly complex and expensive eDiscovery technology.

With Logikcull for Public Records, teams get the best of both worlds. The platform includes an integrated request tracking portal and litigation-grade eDiscovery review technology. It addresses the full lifecycle of a request in one workflow from request-to-disclosure.

From Request-to-Disclosure

Here’s what a unified public records workflow looks like in practice:  

Centralized Request Intake

A journalist is investigating environmental hazards; a student is researching the parks department, so they submit a request through Logikcull's secure, agency-branded portal.

From the centralized portal, records officers assess, assign, and track each request against its statutory deadline, customizable by individual state requirements. The portal runs automatic reminders and tracks the full communication history in one place.

As the clock ticks down (and the portal tracks it), record officers gather and manage the data associated with the request directly in Logikcull. By dragging-and-dropping data sets into the platform, or collecting directly through integrations with MS365, Slack, and Google Workspace, teams pull all the relevant information into one centralized place. Logikcull automatically processes, organizes, indexes, and deduplicates the data, turning a tangle of unstructured data and duplicative email forwards into a condensed data set for review.

Review & Production Features Custom Built for Public Records

Then teams speed through review, leveraging features built for public records:

• Automatic PII detection

• Automatic, global redaction

• AI-assisted search across 100% of indexed data, powered by ASK, Reveal's proprietary GenAI search engine

• A detailed redaction audit trail

• Exemption logic for FOIA, FERPA, and international regimes, including UK and EU FOI and the Dutch Woo

• Built-in production templates matched to local laws of dozens of municipalities

Say goodbye to Control-F PII searches and manual redactions, and hello to speed without sacrificing quality or safety.

Once review is complete, the platform neatly packages everything up and sends it back to the requester through the same security platform where they submitted the request.

6x Faster Response Times

Since Logikcull is purpose-built for the public sector's public request workflow, it's intuitive to use. It usually takes just an hour for new users to become self-sufficient without bothering IT or calling a specialist. Teams pick it up quickly and move through the records request workflow with ease.

City of Corona in California reports that they can move through public records six times faster after adopting Logikcull. Tayler York, a city clerk services specialist for Corona, put it plainly: "If I spend an hour within Logikcull on one specific PRA, I can easily get through several hundred documents. Before, I was only getting through about 50." Fairfax County says it turns around 90% of requests in under an hour when using Logikcull. Both stats hold true while these teams manage a 200% increase in annual requests.

A Decade Serving Government and Education Teams

The expanded public records features and intake portal represent the latest investment in Logikcull's public sector offering, which has been trusted by hundreds of government and education teams since 2013.

Logikcull for Public Records also brings together best-in-class technology from across Reveal's portfolio. Its workflows draw on Zylab, long established in European public-records and government work, while its AI builds on the GenAI first introduced by Reveal Enterprise and trusted by the largest advisory firms in the world.

Logikcull was created to democratize discovery, and Logikcull for Public Records is the latest recommitment to that promise. Now it extends that mission to public records, supporting the teams that orchestrate access from the Freedom Trail to the Venice shoreline.

Agencies can schedule a demo today to see the complete request-to-disclosure workflow or learn more here.