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Lawmakers debate scope and privacy limits of proposed criminal justice data warehouse
Summary
Representative Bill Mercer said House Bill 890 would require agencies to coordinate criminal-history contributions to a data warehouse to support analytics like recidivism studies; DOJ and state criminal-information officials warned about confidential NCIC/biometric data and urged reliance on public court records or statutory authorization for repository access.
House Bill 890 aims to clarify which agencies will supply criminal-history data to a state criminal justice data warehouse and to require an interagency decision by Oct. 1 on responsibility for providing that information. Representative Bill Mercer told the committee the intent is to assemble data useful for policy analysis—especially recidivism—by including court dispositions and correctional treatments.
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