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CJCC tells council technology upgrades are crucial to implement Second Chance law
Summary
Christy Love, executive director of the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, told the Council’s Judiciary and Public Safety Committee that CJCC’s Justice modernization project and federal data sharing barriers are the main obstacles to implementing the Second Chance Amendment Act and other reports; members urged legislation to streamline juvenile data access.
Christy Love, executive director of the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, told the Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety on Feb. 25 that Justice 2.0—CJCC’s multiyear modernization of the district’s integrated justice information system—is needed to implement the automatic sealing and expungement provisions of the Second Chance Amendment Act.
“Justice 2.0 will allow us to match case charges with sentence completion dates,” Love said. She said the technical upgrade (scheduled for completion in 2027) is necessary but not sufficient: several federal agencies have declined to allow CJCC to store or use their records, which prevents automated sealing and other statutory implementations.
Love described several data gaps the council should know about. CJCC cannot access consistent juvenile court feeds or juvenile arrest data in Justice, and agencies such as the Bureau of Prisons and U.S. Probation “either refuse or lack shareable formats,” she said. Nilofer Taber, CJCC’s director of research and policy, told the committee the pretrial detention report faced limits because agency extracts lacked the charge‑plus‑arraignment legal indicators required to determine which individuals the detention rules would affect.
Committee members pressed for remedies. Chair Brooke Pinto said she will propose a bill to streamline administrative court orders that CJCC uses to inspect juvenile records; Love said the group supports legislative action where federal restrictions create statutory dead ends. Love also urged dedicated local funding to complete the modernization and to publish open, downloadable versions of CJCC dashboards; advocates in public testimony earlier in the hearing had asked CJCC to provide CSV/Excel downloads rather than visualizations that cannot be easily analyzed.
CJCC remains on a schedule to finalize a new Gun STAT methodology by April; Love said the domestic‑violence working group launched in late February and will meet every other month to address investigation, victim services, and protective‑order service issues. The council requested appropriation consideration in the FY27 budget for a victimization survey it said was delayed by funding concerns.
