Building A Public Facing DA Dashboard In Milwaukee

Current Landscape

• Cook County State's Attorney
• San Francisco
• Philadelphia
• MOCJ

Status of Data

• Incident - Can be added
• Arrest - No
• Referral - Yes
• Issuance - Yes
• Bail - No
• Pretrial metrics - No
• Disposition - Yes
• Time to Disposition - Yes
• Sentence type - Yes
• Sentence Length - With Review from Courts

Dashboard Maintenance

• Requires staff once a month to pull 5 years of referral and charge PROTECT data into DA dropbox and share Dropbox credentials.
• General maintenance of pipelines
  • column name changes
  • maintenance
  • unexpected outage

Review Site Design

• Overall design of site
  • Layout/color
  • Definition/blog page
  • chart design
• Key Metrics
• Example Report: referral

Next Steps

• Internal agreement that metrics are accurate.
  • What counts as a violent offense or  gun related offense
  • Coding (e.g. dispo or sentencing)
• Writing: explanation of justice system funnel and definitions
• Stakeholder review of metrics
  • Internal review
  • Community Justice Council
  • Community stakeholders
• Media Outreach Strategy
• Launch