SWEAR has announced the Community Video Integrity Project, a new initiative designed to help cities and public agencies proactively protect the integrity of critical video and establish a verifiable record of authenticity from the moment it is captured.
Deepfakes and synthetic media are creating a challenge that extends far beyond fabricated content. According to a 2025 Pew Research Center survey, 53% of Americans are not confident they can distinguish content created by AI from content created by people. As manipulated video becomes more sophisticated and accessible, even authentic footage can be called into question.
For cities and public agencies that rely on video for investigations, public safety, legal proceedings, and accountability, showing a recording is no longer enough. They increasingly need to prove it is real.
The programme gives municipalities, law enforcement agencies, and other public sector organisations an opportunity to put video authentication into practice in real-world environments. Selected participants will deploy SWEAR across high-priority cameras, creating a verifiable record that critical footage is authentic and has not been altered from the moment it is captured.
“Video plays a critical role in how our customers investigate incidents, respond to events, and make important security decisions,” said Andy Schreyer, vice president of technology, Stone Security. “As AI makes sophisticated manipulation increasingly accessible, protecting that video means building on how it is captured and stored to also prove authenticity. That is why we support what SWEAR is doing with the Community Video Integrity Project. It gives organisations a practical way to begin addressing a challenge we believe will only become more important.”
The Community Video Integrity Project is designed to help organisations using Milestone XProtect add an independent, complementary layer of video authentication that builds on the protections XProtect already provides to their existing security environments. SWEAR creates a verifiable record of authenticity from the moment video is captured, giving organisations verifiable documentation that footage has not been altered and helping establish its integrity when used to support investigations, legal proceedings, or other critical decisions.
By creating an independent cryptographic record of the original footage, SWEAR gives organisations verifiable documentation that video remains unchanged, providing a trusted point of reference for investigations, legal proceedings, and other situations where the integrity of evidence may be challenged.
“AI has fundamentally changed the standard for trusting video,” said Jason Crawforth, CEO, SWEAR. “It is no longer enough to look at a recording and believe what you see. Organisations need a way to prove that the video they present in an investigation, in court, or to the public is authentic and unchanged from the moment it was captured. That is what SWEAR provides, and the Community Video Integrity Project is about putting that capability into the hands of organisations where trust in digital evidence is absolutely critical.”
Public sector security leaders and Milestone customers interested in the SWEAR Community Video Integrity Project can learn more or apply at https://swear.com/community-video-integrity-project/.
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