Robert Batty co-founded Forensic Logic in 2003 and built it into the largest centralized network of local law enforcement data in the United States with more than 1.5 billion documents collected and refreshed as frequently as every hour from 2,500 data feeds.  Forensic Logic was acquired by SoundThinking, Inc. (formerly ShotSpotter, Inc., NASDAQ: SSTI), in January 2022.

Over the 19 years, since its founding, Forensic Logic exploited modern information-sharing technology by building a private cloud that was later migrated to the Microsoft Azure GovCloud once Microsoft had achieved Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) compliance in the states in which Forensic Logic operated.

After organically expanding the organization with minimal external financing and supporting more than 400 local law enforcement agencies across four states, in 2017 Forensic Logic raised $20 million and initiated strategic discussions with the owner of its largest competitor – IBM – which resulted in the acquisition of the IBM CopLink product division and along with it a dominant market share with more than 5,000 additional local law enforcement customers across 25 states.

With the largest footprint of local law enforcement data in the nation, Forensic Logic was able to leverage its new expanded footprint to secure customers more rapidly including statewide deployments in several states and nearly every federal law enforcement agency.

As an industry executive, Mr. Batty has developed external business relationships and consulted with several burgeoning companies in the law enforcement market, including a facial recognition startup and a fingerprint identification company with close ties to the intelligence community and the FBI.  Mr. Batty is also a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police – Forensics Committee,where he was nominated by law enforcement Chiefs of Police and approved by the IACP Executive Board – and now serves his third two-year term. 

The IACP Forensics Committee tracks, studies, and considers issues involving the use of forensic sciences by law enforcement including personal identification using facial recognition, fingerprints, handwriting, and DNA.