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Michigan Senate approves juvenile diversion bill after amendments on data access fail
Summary
The Michigan Senate passed Senate Bill 24 on March 5, 2025, to amend the Juvenile Diversion Act. Two amendments that would have broadened public access to de-identified juvenile justice data were rejected on roll calls before the bill’s final passage, which carried 29-6 with two excused.
The Michigan Senate passed Senate Bill 24, a bill to amend the Juvenile Diversion Act, on March 5, 2025, after rejecting two amendments that sought to allow broader public access to de-identified juvenile justice data.
Senator Runstead offered two amendments to the bill that would have allowed researchers to obtain de-identified juvenile data for public review. Runstead said the proposed changes would let “any researcher that wants to look at this data [to] produce a report, [produce] a study, and tell us what the information's all about,” and argued that limiting data access to universities under…
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