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Committee approves bill requiring expanded corrections data reporting
Summary
House Bill 136 would mandate the Department of Corrections to compile and submit annual reports to the General Assembly on time served, parole and supervision outcomes; the committee voted 19‑0 to report the bill favorably.
Representative Jared Bauman presented House Bill 136, which would amend KRS 439 (corrections reporting) to require the Department of Corrections (DOC) to compile and submit annual reports to the General Assembly detailing time served by individuals released from correctional institutions and parole and supervision outcomes.
Joshua Crawford, director of Criminal Justice Initiatives at the Georgia Center for Opportunity, described the bill as intended to improve policymaking by providing comprehensive data on length of stay, parole outcomes and supervision metrics that Kentucky currently does not collect in a standardized way. "If we don't have good data, it's very difficult to make good policy," Representative Bauman said when introducing the measure.
Committee members asked whether DOC could produce the data and whether the requested elements were already collected. Representative Burke asked whether the Department had expressed concerns about compiling the required information; Bauman said DOC had not expressed reservations and that the bill would formalize a report the DOC already submits in part and establish specific criteria the General Assembly should receive. Joshua Crawford added that other states publish similar reports and that the request is not novel.
After a brief discussion the committee voted to report House Bill 136 favorably by unanimous roll call in committee (19 yes, 0 no).
