Today, we are pleased to announce that Hall of Justice now includes 125 additional datasets made available to the public through the Police Data Initiative.
Continue readingLessons learned from a year of opening police data
April's White House Police Data Initiative celebrated its progress by gathering industry leaders for a two-day event discussing challenges and successes of releasing open police data to the public.
Continue readingDozens of groups lobby heavily on criminal justice reform bill
A major sentencing reform bill has drawn major attention — 28 groups have lined up to lobby on both sides of the legislation.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Unlocking prison re-entry data
Thousands of families, individuals, organizations and civic coders are ready to roll up their sleeves and build roads to a new life after prison or jail — we just don’t have the information we need to get the job done.
Continue readingReconciling criminal history open data and expungement
Inmate and arrest data will likely remain available in a variety of formats online. Unfortunately, those identified in the data may face long-term impact even after they have “paid their debt” to society.
Continue readingBalancing post-conviction data and privacy
Many states publish inmate databases online, but standards for sharing these resources with the public don’t exist — causing discrepancies in how governments approach them.
Continue readingSunlight launches Hall of Justice, a massive data inventory on criminal justice across the U.S.
Today, Sunlight is launching Hall of Justice, a robust, searchable data inventory of nearly 10,000 datasets and research documents from across all 50 states and the federal government.
Continue readingThe perils of personally identifiable pre-conviction data
Where do we draw the line between citizens’ rights to freedom of information and individuals’ rights to privacy?
Continue readingHelp uncover the nation’s dependence on local court fees and fines
What happens when governments stop thinking of fines as a deterrent, but as a crucial source of funding? The Sunlight Foundation and MuckRock are partnering to find out.
Continue readingAre the government’s commitments on criminal justice open data enough?
The White House released its Open Government National Action Plan last month, and while it contains many worthwhile goals regarding criminal justice data, there is much more work to be done on the issue.
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