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Ring Community Requests (Axon partnership)

The button that lets cops ask millions of Ring owners for their footage.

Community Requests is Ring's 2025 revival of its police video-request tool, letting law-enforcement officers solicit footage from Ring camera owners in a chosen area, with sharing framed as voluntary. It is delivered through a partnership with Axon, routing requests via Axon's Evidence/Fusus real-time-crime-center platform to feed Ring clips directly into police case files.

What it does

  • Officer-initiated geofenced footage requests
  • Voluntary user share into police evidence systems
  • Integration with Axon Evidence / real-time crime centers
  • Anonymous decline option for residents
  • Successor to the retired Request for Assistance tool

Where it's deployed

  • Ring–Axon Community Request rollout (2025)
  • Marketed to U.S. police departments via Axon's agency base

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