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Wayne State dean urges law to let researchers link juvenile diversion data
Summary
Supporters told the House Judiciary Committee that House Bill 4396 would let approved researchers access and link currently inaccessible juvenile-diversion and related criminal-justice records under contract or MOU, enabling aggregate analyses of program effectiveness while stripping identifiers for privacy.
Representative Leitner introduced House Bill 4396 and called Dr. Kubiak, dean of the School of Social Work at Wayne State University, to testify in support. Dr. Kubiak told the committee that data needed to evaluate juvenile diversion and other criminal-justice interventions are currently "legally inaccessible." She said the bill would enable data sharing under contract or a memorandum of understanding so researchers can link records across systems and then remove identifiers to analyze outcomes in the aggregate.
"The data on what youth have been…
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