Implementing a Data Quality Program and utilizing data in decision making. Courts collect data to better manage cases and the docket as a whole, to report to the public, to make decisions about resources, to inform policy, and to comply with reporting requirements.. Far too often the data we have… Read more

Poverty is not a crime, yet people in poverty can trigger escalating fines and fees through inability to pay—a self-perpetuating cycle. This cycle of escalating courts costs, fines, and fees effectively criminalize poverty. This education session focuses on two court projects aim to avert this escalation by including the assessment… Read more