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Committee holds data-transparency bill for the Department of Corrections for further review
Summary
Supporters pressed House Bill 525 to require the Department of Public Safety and Corrections to publish downloadable datasets and codebooks; DOC officials said much of the data had been posted piecemeal and the committee chose to hold the bill for a week to allow stakeholder discussions and technical fixes.
Supporters from the Vera Institute of Justice, including Ashley Crawford and Dr. Kim Mosby, urged the committee to pass House Bill 525, which would require the Department of Public Safety and Corrections to publish underlying datasets and codebooks already collected by the agency so researchers, policy-makers and the public can…
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