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CCJJ touts public-safety data portal and details jail-reimbursement formula; warns of grant pressures

Criminal Justice Appropriations Subcommittee · January 22, 2026
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Summary

Tom Ross and Ken Matthews of the Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice told the subcommittee CCJJ connects most criminal-justice agencies to a data portal (81.9% connected, 3.4 billion rows) and explained the jail-reimbursement calculation that produced a $19.06M need for FY27, leaving a request of about $7.2M after a $11.7M base.

Tom Ross, director of the Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice (CCJJ), described CCJJ’s expanding role overseeing commissions, grant administration and data research. Ross said CCJJ now has 11 divisions, administers grant programs (about $37M statewide) and is leading a multi-year data project that makes criminal-justice data available to policymakers on a 24-hour cadence.

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