Collection and reporting requirement of specified information on criminal cases and creation of a public dashboard for this information

This bill would require Minnesota criminal justice officials (including courts, prosecutors, and jails) to collect standardized data on every criminal case, such as defendant demographics (race, age, language), charge details, bail conditions, case outcomes, and sentencing. The collected information would be sent to the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and the Sentencing Guidelines Commission for annual analysis. The commission would then create a public dashboard displaying this data to increase transparency about how the criminal justice system operates. The bill aims to provide clear, accessible information on case processing without specifying how the data should be used or interpreted. It is currently a proposed bill (introduced February 2025) and not yet law.