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Whatcom County committee reviews interim Justice Project data dashboard, urges clearer measures and public testing
Summary
The Justice Project Oversight and Planning Committee reviewed an interim data dashboard on Jan. 15, 2026, asking for clearer indicator definitions, more disaggregated and longitudinal measures, and a pre-release user test before the county posts the dashboard publicly in Q1.
Members of the Justice Project Oversight and Planning (JPop) Committee reviewed an interim data dashboard on Jan. 15, 2026, as staff moved to consolidate existing program and criminal-legal system data into a single public-facing tool.
"This interim data dashboard has...what it is, and I wanna tell you what it is not," a staff presenter said, describing the product as a centralized warehouse of existing point-in-time and regularly collected data intended to surface outputs now while the team works toward a living dashboard that can track outcomes over time. The dashboard organizes measures around three questions from the results-based accountability framework: how much are we doing, how well are we doing it, and is anyone better off.
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