AI Startups Need a Police Referral Policy

Podcast: The Innovation Attorney Podcast · The Innovation Attorney

Opublikowano: 2026-10-12

An AI startup should tell users in its privacy policy and at the input box that staff may review conversations and report credible threats to police under 18 U.S.C. 2702(b)(8). The Lee County case shows what happens when the user learns this from a deputy at the door. On September 26, 2026, a woman in Bonita Springs, Florida, used Claude as a diary and wrote that she would shoot up the Lee County Sheriff’s Office. The next day she mentioned a new gun. Anthropic monitoring flagged the entries, a human reviewer judged the threat credible, and the co...