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Hochberg: Create "warehouse" of publicly accessible criminal justice data

Rep. Scott Hochberg proposed an excellent idea at yesterday's House Corrections Committee as committee members were grilling witnesses trying to get to the bottom of data surrounding which counties sent how many offenders to state jail facilities and the related recidivism rates.Office of Court Administration chief Carl Reynolds had suggested that the state needed a "systematic, ongoing" way to analyze criminal justice data along the lines of Dr. Tony Fabelo's now-defunct Criminal Justice Policy Council.Hochberg said that every session there are "a whole raft of questions" being asked by the Lege and outside organizations but there's never any simple way to get at the answers. He suggested building "a repository of data that people could access to be researched without every request having to go" to each individual agency - some sort of "public data warehouse" of de-identified public data...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on August 22, 2008 (boomark / email).