Stanford Law School on Monday released a report highlighting gaps in criminal justice data that they say hinder researchers and law enforcement. The data gaps allow offenders to own firearms and unduly criminalize others.
Assemblyman Rob Bonta's proposal would create new statewide crime reporting standards.
A proposal by Assemblyman Rob Bonta would create new statewide reporting standards for local and state law enforcement agencies and courts and clarify existing public records laws to allow greater access to the information. The flaws in data collection make it tough to assess whether efforts to reduce incarceration and recent laws rolling back sentencing for offenders are working — and saving the state money, as its backers proposed, researchers, prosecutors and public defense lawyers said. And it’s not only in the lack of coherent data where the problems arise, but in who can gain access to the information.
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