State: Florida
The bill: HB 7071 (2018)
What would this database do?
- store searchable, anonymized data about individual defendants
- includes ethnicities
- includes details of plea agreements
- county-level data about the daily number of people being held in a given jail pre-trial
- annual misdemeanor caseload at each court
How is this trend progressing?
- local governments like counties in California have created their own criminal case databases
WIRED | FLORIDA COULD START A CRIMINAL-JUSTICE DATA REVOLUTION