New Dashboard Shows Impact of Record Clearance Policies in North Carolina – North Carolina Criminal Law

On the Prison Justice Innovation Lab, we’re targeted on an evidence-based method to prison justice points. We take care of numerous information and attempt to make that info related and accessible to state and native leaders. Living proof, our new North Carolina Report Clearance Dashboard. On the Dashboard, you possibly can select varied coverage choices, together with:

Offenses to incorporate within the coverage—for instance, do you wish to embody administrative site visitors misdemeanors? Different non-violent misdemeanors?
Fees that did or didn’t end in a conviction
Service date for included offenses
Related coverage exclusions—for instance, do you wish to exclude out of your coverage possibility individuals who have a pending cost or conviction for a violent offense? For an impaired driving offense?

When you decide your coverage choices, the Dashboard offers you outcomes—the variety of working-age individuals impacted, together with by race and ethnicity. You’ll be able to change your coverage choices and see extra outcomes.

On Dashboard’s Methodology part, we absolutely clarify our information supply, methodology, and extra. Listed here are some highlights:

The info powering the Dashboard are precise information from the North Carolina Administrative Workplace of the Courts Automated Prison/Infraction System (ACIS).
ACIS doesn’t embody a discipline or identifier that connects people to all of their circumstances within the system. We developed an identical course of to try this, to keep away from double counting individuals.
The numbers reported on the Dashboard are an undercount for 2 causes. First, we solely have ACIS information going again to 2014. Second, whereas we have now ACIS information by December 31, 2023, we don’t but have information from the court docket system’s new Odyssey information administration system (however we’re engaged on that!).

We’re already amassing concepts for model 2.0 of the Report Clearance Dashboard. For instance, we’d love to supply outcomes on the county degree. In case you have recommendations, tell us, utilizing the online type right here.

The Dashboard was a group effort. Except for me, major contributors included Alexander Cowell, Lab Analysis Director; Ethan Rex, Lab Knowledge Supervisor; Will Taylor, Lab Knowledge Analyst; and Jamie Vaske, a Professor at Western Carolina College.

Need extra information concerning the North Carolina prison justice system? Take a look at our Measuring Justice Dashboard—we simply up to date it with ACIS information by the tip of 2023—and the numerous briefing papers and report on our web site.