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A flaw in the Metropolitan Police Department’s database may have compromised thousands of cases—both juvenile and criminal.

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine said that he’s bringing in outside help to assist in a large-scale review of all the potentially affected cases, which is about 14,000. The Washington Times reports that his office “has handled 11,000 criminal cases and 3,000 juvenile cases since the Metropolitan Police Department began using the troubled I/Leads program in January 2012.”

The problem that lead to this large-scale review? The I/LEADS database was apparently hiding details of police investigations from prosecutors. The city first became aware of the problem during a DUI trial in January, when a police officer was testifying. Details of his testimony weren’t in the police reports that were sent to prosecutors, leading them to look into what the problem might be.

“By no means do I want to suggest at all that there are problems with production of documents in all of those cases,” Racine said about the large-scale review. “It’s unlikely that we’re talking about problems in the thousands at all. But in order to make sure that folks have the full benefit of their constitutional rights we’re going to reach out to every criminal defendant who was adjudicated by prosecutors in the Office of the Attorney General.”

Racine has already dismissed a number of cases because of the glitch, but the exact number it may have affected remains indeterminable at the moment. “You asked me whether there was less than a handful or more than a hundred, and I felt more comfortable more saying ‘it’s probably in the dozens,’ but I don’t want you to hold me to that,” Racine told WAMU.