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Data warehouse bill draws praise and caution as committee hears concerns about scope and privacy
Summary
Rep. Bill Mercer’s bill to authorize the criminal justice data warehouse prompted support for the project’s purpose but opposition from law‑enforcement and prosecutors’ groups who said specifying data points in statute is premature while technical, jurisdictional and privacy issues remain unresolved.
Representative Bill Mercer described House Bill 6 91 as an effort to articulate legislative intent for the criminal justice data warehouse — a statewide integrated database under development to support analysis of criminal histories, programming outcomes and recidivism patterns.
Mercer said the Legislature needs to identify the types of analyses the warehouse should enable — complete criminal histories, sentencing dates, treatment programming and drug involvement — so the state can…
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