Real-time, human-verified, hyper-local,
on-the-scene footage to boost your coverage
AI-powered Radar
Continuously monitors and analyzes real-time data streams to detect, classify, and surface critical incidents with high precision.
18+ Incident Categories
Comprehensive coverage across a wide range of incident categories, enabling structured detection and consistent response workflows.
Video Downloads
Easily view, download or embed videos streamed on the ground and verified near incidents.
Pro Power Tools
Advanced tools for filtering, and deep analysis, designed to accelerate operational efficiency.
Citizen is the largest real-time public safety network in the United States. When an incident happens, Citizen users are there first capturing video before any news crew arrives.
Citizen Enterprise gives your newsroom licensed, searchable access to that footage, with the legal protection to publish it.
Citizen Enterprise is built for the demands of a professional newsroom with the tools, history, and legal backing to match.
How Citizen Footage is Different
Licensed Video Downloads
Protect your broadcast and publication with Citizen's indemnification on licensed content.
Category Sorting
Find relevant video in seconds by filtering footage by incident type such as fire, accident, crime, and more.
5-year Archive Access
Five years of historical video so you can report developing stories, file follow-ups, and build context from the archive.
Location, Date & Time Search
Pull footage by specific dates, custom ranges, and geography to see everything. Citizen Enterprise lets you zero in on a specific city, neighborhood, or region tied to a story window, a known incident, or a recurring beat—search the way journalists think.
Embeddable Videos
Clean, attributed, CMS-ready, videos without the friction of downloading, converting, or re-uploading footage.
Incident Reported
A user reports an incident on Citizen. Nearby users are alerted and begin capturing footage often within seconds of the event.
Search & Filter
Your team searches Enterprise by category, location, or date range. Filter to your beat, your geography, your story window.
Download or Embed
Download footage for broadcast or embed it directly in your digital story fully attributed and covered under your licensing agreement.
Publish With Confidence
Your legal indemnification is in place. Your attribution is built in. Your editors can approve and your audience will instantly see it.