This bill requires each district attorney general to provide an annual report by March 1 of each year to the governor and attorney general and make such report available to the public upon request. The report must contain, at a minimum, for the previous year, the following aggregate, non-personally identifying information, categorized by offense:
(1) Arrests made and offenses referred;
(2) The number of indictments filed;
(3) The number of cases transferred to another law enforcement entity;
(4) The number of cases in which an indictment was sought for an individual and the indictment was for an offense other than the offense for which the individual was originally arrested; and
(5) The number of each disposition entered by a court, including dismissals, pretrial diversions, plea agreements, trial outcomes, and sentences imposed.
This bill requires the attorney general to compile a statewide report summarizing the information provided by each district attorney general in a uniform fashion that is sortable by offense and jurisdiction. The attorney general must make the report available to the public, and submit the report to the governor, speaker of the house of representatives, and speaker of the senate. The speakers must distribute the report to the appropriate standing committees of the general assembly.
ON APRIL 8, 2024, THE HOUSE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED HOUSE BILL 2753, AS AMENDED.
AMENDMENT #1 makes the following changes:
(1) Revises the provision in the bill requiring each district attorney general to provide an annual report by March 1 of each year to the governor and attorney general and reporter and make such report available to the public upon request by, instead, requiring each district attorney general to provide an annual report by March 1 of each year to the governor, speaker of the house of representatives, speaker of the senate, chair of the criminal justice committee of the house of representatives, chair of the judiciary committee of the senate, and district attorneys general conference and make such report available to the public upon request;
(2) Revises the provisions in the bill requiring the attorney general to compile a statewide report summarizing the information provided by each district attorney general in a uniform fashion that is sortable by offense and jurisdiction. The attorney general and reporter must make the report available to the public, and submit the report to the governor, speaker of the house of representatives, and speaker of the senate. The speakers must distribute the report to the appropriate standing committees of the general assembly by. This amendment, instead, requires the district attorneys general conference to compile a statewide report summarizing the information provided by each district attorney general in a uniform fashion that is sortable by offense and jurisdiction. The district attorneys general conference must make the report available to the public, and submit the report to the governor, speaker of the house of representatives, speaker of the senate, chair of the criminal justice committee of the house of representatives, and chair of the judiciary committee of the senate; and
(3) Changes the effective date to July 1, 2026.