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DA's office presses joint office on benchmarks and data sharing
Summary
Ernest Brooks of the Shelby County District Attorney’s office asked about budgeting, benchmarks and what DA data the joint office can access; presenters said they will pursue data-sharing agreements and seek dispositions to inform the public dashboard.
Ernest Brooks, senior policy adviser in the Shelby County District Attorney’s office, asked whether the joint office has separate city and county budgets and whether it will seek grants jointly. He pressed for clear benchmarks for success, asking whether the office has statistical targets tied to reductions in shootings.
Matthews and Williams responded that applications and award accounts may be registered to either the city or county but that the office will coordinate joint activity. On benchmarks, presenters named a working goal of a 10% year-over-year reduction in shootings and said they will track outcomes via the public accountability dashboard and hospital and police data. Brooks also asked what data the DA's office can share; Matthews said disposition information and other data points are among the items the office wants to make public to improve transparency and planning.
Officials invited offline follow-up to establish concrete data-sharing procedures and to determine what data the DA's office can provide to support hotspot mapping and intervention planning.
