Drafter
Clerk 05/24/2022
Title
A MOTION requesting the executive convene a work group to advance efforts to integrate law and justice data in King County, requesting a publicly accessible dashboard including integrated law and justice data, and requesting an interim update and an implementation plan.
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WHEREAS, King County has been a national leader in innovations to the law and justice system, and
WHEREAS, King County's law and justice agencies include the sheriff's office, department of public defense, the prosecuting attorney's office, the superior and district courts, the department of adult and juvenile detention and the department of judicial administration, and
WHEREAS, tracking data across law and justice agencies is critically important for tracking community and individual outcomes, evaluating programs, budgeting and making policy decisions, and
WHEREAS, a 2020 pretrial reform proviso workgroup report, developed by representatives of the various county law and justice agencies, the executive, the council, and community and nonprofit agencies, stated that, "The robust data systems maintained by the various criminal legal system agencies (superior and district courts, judicial administration, jail, prosecutor, and public defense) do not interface with each other and do not include unique keys that would enable linking of data to support analysis," making the process of tracking outcomes across law and justice agencies labor intensive and difficult to achieve on a large scale, and
WHEREAS, the 2020 pretrial reform proviso workgroup report recommended that King County plan for an integrated criminal legal system by convening a workgroup and developing a capital information technology project to address the need;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT MOVED by the Council of King County:
A. The council establishes a commitment to work towards an integrated, unified and public law and justice data system that allows for program evaluation and tracking data by po...
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