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Community Advancement Network highlights jail‑booking disproportionality to Public Safety Commission
Summary
A Community Advancement Network representative told the commission a dashboard indicator shows Black residents compose 28% of Travis County jail bookings but 8% of the county's adult population, producing a 3.4 disproportionality ratio.
At the start of public communication, a representative for Community Advancement Network (CAN) briefed the Public Safety Commission on the organization’s community dashboard and its racial disproportionality indicators.
Carlos Soto (transcribed as Carlos So to) told commissioners CAN is a collaboration of government, nonprofits, private and faith‑based groups that maintains a community dashboard with 18 indicators across four issue areas, including public safety. Soto said one CAN indicator calculates the disproportionality ratio for jail bookings by dividing each racial or ethnic group’s share of bookings by that group’s share of the adult population.
Soto reported the dashboard’s most recent calculation shows Black people make up about 8% of Travis County’s adult population but about 28% of people booked into the Travis County Jail, yielding a disproportionality ratio of 3.4. He said other CAN indicators measure disproportionality in school disciplinary removals, confirmed child‑abuse victims and recipients of homeless services, and invited commissioners to request the dashboard and related materials.
Ending: CAN offered to share the dashboard and follow‑up materials with commission staff; commissioners encouraged leaving contact information with commission staff to obtain the resources.
