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Bill would continue Montana criminal justice data warehouse; funding requested to bring courts online
Summary
Representative Amy Regier presented House Bill 117 to continue the Integrated Justice Data Warehouse established in 2023, seeking funding for software, staff and roughly $500,000 to help courts join the system; proponents urged the committee to pass the bill while technical funding language is clarified.
Representative Amy Regier (House District 6) opened the Senate Finance and Claims hearing on House Bill 117, saying the bill continues the work started by 2023’s Senate Bill 11 to maintain and expand the Integrated Justice Data Warehouse managed by the Board of Crime Control.
The bill would establish criminal-justice data priorities for the 2025–26 interim and appropriate funds for database development and related staff. Nataya Bowser, director of the Board of Crime Control, told the committee the project is “critical to collecting and analyzing data that is currently siloed,” and listed key budget pieces: a project manager and business data analyst FTE,…
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