AI Command: Responsible AI Governance for Law Enforcement Leaders – ONLINE

FACTS

Instructor: Eric Atstupenas, Esquire

Date: October 21, 2026

Time: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm

Format: Online

Price: $895.00 USD (Individual Seat); $1,495.00 USD (Agency Seat - up to 3 named people)

COURSE OVERVIEW

AI Command is a year-long membership program designed for law enforcement leaders including chiefs, command staff, legal advisors, and policy leads who oversee artificial intelligence adoption decisions within their agencies. Rather than focusing on technology itself, the program addresses the governance and responsible deployment of AI tools already in use—from report-writing assistants and analytics features to facial recognition systems and vendor contracts. Participants explore the legal framework, ethical considerations, and practical governance strategies that help agencies make defensible AI decisions and maintain public trust as technology continues to evolve faster than the law.

WHAT IS AI COMMAND?

AI Command is a year-long membership for chiefs, command staff, legal advisors, and policy leads who make AI-adoption decisions in law enforcement agencies. It is not a technology course and it is not a one-time training. The subject is the governance of the artificial intelligence already inside your agency: the report-writing assistant an officer found on his own, the analytics feature a vendor switched on in a platform you already license, the facial recognition request, the contract nobody read past the price page, and the prompts and outputs that will eventually show up in discovery.

Most AI conversations in this profession stop at the legal question. Is it allowed? That question matters, and this program answers it. But compliance is the floor, and the floor is low. Statutes lag the technology by years. Caselaw arrives one fact pattern at a time. Whole categories of AI use are governed by nothing at all, which does not make them defensible, and does not make them right.

The harder questions are the ones the law has not reached yet. Is the system fair? Can we explain it to the person it was used on? Would we be comfortable if the community knew exactly how it works? Agencies that can answer those questions are the ones that will still have public trust when the rules finally catch up. AI Command is built to make your agency one of them.

Every month brings new caselaw, new statutes, new tools, and new incidents, so a program recorded once is out of date before it finishes. This one is never finished. What changed this month gets covered this month, materials are dated and versioned, and everything published since launch stays available to you for your full term.

National and portable. Governance frameworks, ethical standards, procurement discipline, and constitutional principles travel across state lines and across borders. Where state law varies, we track it.

THE FRAMEWORK

The membership runs on one framework, which is a continuous loop covering these stages:

• Inventory
• Classify
• Authorize
• Contract
• Train
• Verify
• Document
• Reassess

It is a loop, not a line. Approval is not the end of the review. Software updates, new features, new caselaw, and incidents send a tool back to the beginning, and the last stage points at the first.

WHAT IS INCLUDED

• Monthly LIVE sessions. Third Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. Eastern, 60 minutes, eleven a year. All recorded and posted within 48 hours.
• Special briefings when a major development lands between sessions.
• The monthly mini lesson. Twelve short interactive lessons a year, released mid-month between sessions.
• The Resource Library. Templates, checklists, and short written briefs, added to throughout the year.
• The full archive. Every recording, mini lesson, briefing, and library item published since launch, available from your first day for your full term.
• Policing in the Age of Algorithms, on demand. The included six-module foundations course covers the landscape, constitutional and legal considerations, ethics, policy and procurement, officer documentation, and scenarios.
• The AI Command Google Group. A private list of chiefs, command staff, legal advisors, and policy leads across jurisdictions. No vendors.

WHO SHOULD ENROLL

Chiefs and agency heads, command staff, police legal advisors and municipal counsel, policy and accreditation leads, and anyone designated to coordinate AI review in their agency. Agencies of any size, anywhere in the United States.

No technical background is assumed or required. This is a program about law, governance, and judgment, not about how the software works.

HOW A MONTH WORKS

Live sessions run the third Wednesday of each month at 2:00 p.m. Eastern on Zoom, 60 minutes, recorded and posted within 48 hours. There is no December session. Dates and times may shift with advance notice; the schedule is always posted in the member area.

The topic of each session is chosen and announced roughly two weeks in advance based on what is happening and which stage of the framework is due. The format includes:

• What Changed (15 min): New caselaw, statutes, regulations, enforcement actions, notable incidents, and tool developments since last month, and what each one means for an agency.
• Deep Dive (35 min): One issue, worked through properly. Sometimes a stage of the framework, sometimes a development that deserves the whole slot. Some months this is a 90-minute working session built around a template or live walk-through, announced in advance.
• Member Questions (10 min): Questions raised in the member group or sent ahead of the session, answered on the record and without attribution.

When something large lands between sessions—a Supreme Court decision, a new state statute, or a significant wrongful-arrest case—a recorded special briefing goes out rather than waiting for the next Wednesday, typically within two weeks.

THE MONTHLY MINI LESSON

Twelve a year, one released mid-month between sessions. Each is a short, self-contained interactive lesson: a scenario with a decision to make, a set of situations to classify, or a document to work through. Sessions cover issues. Mini lessons cover the habits that run underneath all of them, paired each month with one current watch item. Examples include:

• A checkbox is a deployment. The most consequential AI decision in your agency this year may be a toggle in a software update.
• Lead versus probable cause. What a match, a score, or a flag is—and what it is not—when the officer writes the report.
• The use-case sentence. Writing an authorization that actually constrains what a tool may do.
• The first ten questions for a vendor. Before the demo, not after.
• What a prompt is, legally. Records, discovery, and the draft that was never sent.
• The demo with live data. Why a pilot carries the same exposure as a deployment.
• Automation bias on the midnight shift. What overreliance looks like to a supervisor, and how to catch it early.
• Explainability at the select board. What you can say about a system without disclosing anything operational.
• When the update arrives. Routing a new feature back through review without grinding operations to a halt.
• Retiring a tool. Suspension, decommissioning, and what happens to the data.

THE RESOURCE LIBRARY

There is no binder. A 200-page guide to AI law would be out of date by spring, and we would rather give you something you can use the week it is posted. The Resource Library is a member-only collection that grows through the year, and every item is dated so you always know what is current. It includes:

• Templates and checklists, in editable Word and Excel: AI inventory worksheet, risk classification matrix, authorization record, AI impact assessment, vendor questionnaire, contract clause checklist, documentation and disclosure procedure, and incident report form.
• Short written briefs on significant developments, written for chiefs and legal advisors rather than for lawyers arguing the case.
• Session materials posted alongside every recording.

Not every development warrants a written resource, and the library is curated rather than exhaustive. The aim is to give you the things worth your attention, not a complete archive of everything that happened.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Do I have to attend live? No. Every session is recorded and posted within 48 hours, with the materials alongside it.

Can I join mid-year? Yes. Membership runs twelve months from the day you enroll, and you get access to every recording, mini lesson, briefing, and library item published since launch.

Why isn't there a topic schedule for the year? Because the subject will not hold still. Topics are chosen and announced about two weeks before each session based on what is happening and which stage of the framework is due.

Why is there no December session? December is the hardest month to protect an hour in. The December mini lesson goes out as usual, and if something major lands that month, a special briefing goes out too.

Is this a legal program or an ethics program? Both, in that order of priority. Law is the floor and we cover it thoroughly, but most AI decisions arrive before the law has anything to say about them. The framework is built to handle both.

Is this Massachusetts only? No. The governance framework, ethical standards, procurement discipline, and constitutional principles are national. Where state law differs, sessions flag the questions worth taking to your own counsel.

How is this different from the Policing in the Age of Algorithms course? The course is the foundation: six modules you work through once, at your own pace. The membership is what happens after, every month, as the law and the tools change. The course is included with membership.

What's the difference between an individual seat and an agency seat? An individual seat is one named person. An agency seat is up to three named people from the same agency, each with their own login.

What happens if someone leaves the department? The seat transfers to whoever takes over the role, at no additional charge. Email dawn@mpitraining.com with the new name.

Does the membership renew automatically? No. It is a single charge for twelve months. Renewing is a decision you make again next year.

Which fiscal year does this fall in? The charge is billed once at enrollment, so it lands in the fiscal year in which you purchase it, even though the term runs into the following one.

How do I get a question answered? Post it to the Google Group or send it ahead of a session. Recurring questions are answered generally and without attribution.

Do I need any technical background? No, and the program does not assume one.

FOR CHIEFS: WHY THIS IS WORTH A SEAT

Someone in your agency is already making AI decisions on your behalf. An officer is using a consumer chatbot to clean up a narrative. A vendor update added a summarization feature and a detective is using it. A facial recognition lead turned into a stop. Every one of those is a decision you will be asked to defend, and every one was made whether or not anyone trained the person making it.

WHAT CHANGES IN YOUR AGENCY

• Inventory: Today you find out what AI is in your agency when a records request, defense motion, or reporter asks. With AI Command there is a written inventory, including features embedded in tools you already own.
• Authorization: Today a tool gets approved generally and then gets used for things nobody contemplated. With AI Command each tool is authorized for a documented use case with defined restrictions.
• Contracts: Today the contract was signed on price and features. With AI Command you know whether the vendor can keep your prompts, train on your data, or change the product without telling you.
• Documentation: Today a face match or risk score drives the stop, and the report says so. With AI Command officers can articulate the independent basis for the action, and the report reflects it.
• Preservation: Today prompts, outputs, and logs live wherever the vendor put them. With AI Command someone has decided what gets preserved, where, and who answers for it.
• Staying Current: Today a major court decision lands and you read about it months later. With AI Command you get a briefing on what it means for your agency, typically within two weeks.
• Accountability: Today "it's not illegal" is the whole answer when someone asks why you use it. With AI Command you can explain what the system does, what it does not do, and why your agency decided it was appropriate.

COST AND TIME COMMITMENT

$895 covers an individual for a year; $1,495 covers three people from one agency. That is about the cost of one conference registration with travel or a few hours of outside counsel.

The agency seat is built for the way this work actually gets done. AI governance is not one person's job. The agency seat puts the chief or a designee, the person coordinating AI review, and the legal advisor in the same room.

What it costs you in time: One live hour a month, at their own desk, plus a short mini lesson mid-month. No travel. Sessions are recorded and posted within 48 hours.

Members enroll from agencies of every size and from across the country. A three-person department and a three-hundred-person department divide this work differently and answer to the same Constitution. Sessions and materials are educational and operational resources. They are not legal advice and do not replace consultation with agency or municipal counsel. Nothing in the program creates an attorney-client relationship. Do not post active investigations, active litigation, identified personnel matters, CJIS-restricted information, or personally identifying material to the group. Vendors and vendor representatives are not admitted.