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Commission staff report KCER progress, SGS Web fixes and public release of 2024 sentencing data
Summary
Staff reported that KCER development is nearing pilot testing, SGS Web received corrections, and the commission posted 2024 data and updated dashboards showing differences between the seventh and eighth guideline editions.
Commission staff gave extended updates on KCER, SGS Web maintenance, the public release of 2024 sentencing data and research partnerships during the meeting.
Senior Deputy Director Ryan Myers summarized the annual reporting and verification cycle: staff begin data reviews in February, communicate preliminary reporting percentages to county courts in April, and finish final analysis in May to support the annual report. Myers said the commission expects to have printed copies for members by the June meeting and that the 2024 data are already posted online.
Christie Bundra, who leads applications and information technology work, said the KCER project is nearing completion of core application development and testing with resentencing guideline generation scheduled for immediate testing; staff plan a pilot in the fourth quarter and a statewide rollout early next year if pilots go well. Bundra described a development process involving stakeholder requirements, design mockups, build, quality assurance and user acceptance testing using real cases.
Bundra also noted SGS Web updates deployed Feb. 11 to correct enhancements for ethnic intimidation, terrorism and ecoterrorism offenses and to address eighth‑edition formatting. She said the team is coordinating a database migration to SQL Server 2022.
Brett summarized dashboard changes tied to releasing 2024 data, explaining the need to present seventh‑ and eighth‑edition results separately because of definitional changes in conformity metrics. Brett said 2024 included roughly 65,000 seventh‑edition cases and fewer than 20,000 eighth‑edition cases, so eighth‑edition metrics are early and may not be fully representative.
Noah and other research staff described ongoing collaborations with Penn State and Carnegie Mellon — including NIJ‑funded work and system synthesis projects — and postdoctoral pieces examining veterans’ outcomes and county probation practices. Staff emphasized additional guardrails and MOUs for contracted data work.
