Long backlogs, large caseloads, heavy workloads, and shrinking budgets make it harder to deliver on the core mission: seeking justice, representing the public interest, and ensuring community safety.
What if improving your data could fix real problems? Lighten workloads, make budgets go further and overall smarter resource deployment? It can because it’s all tied to data.
Groundwork helps agencies uncover the bottlenecks. This includes auditing data for accuracy and completeness and evaluating data practices, culture, and infrastructure. From there, our team delivers actionable recommendations that can reduce backlogs, cut costs, and improve outcomes.
Through our hands-on Technical Assistance, we help put those recommendations into action—mapping systems, building data dictionaries, training staff, strengthening data operations and more for lasting impact.
Together, Groundwork and Technical Assistance can give your agency the roadmap and support to transform data challenges into smarter, more efficient justice.
Not sure where to start? We can help! Our solutions are designed to meet you where you’re at—whether you need universal guidance, targeted interventions, or intensive support. We don’t just fix today’s problems; we build your team’s capacity to sustain high-quality data practices for the long run.
Agencies using Groundwork are already seeing its real impact:
“We are so pleased to have worked with Measures for Justice to take a hard look at our data. This work has been invaluable for getting us ready to make our data public, which helps ensure we are making the best decisions as we pursue safety, justice, fairness, and equity in our community.”
–Contra Costa County District Attorney
“I did not realize the importance of having a third party involved in evaluating our processes and identifying the data holes. Nobody in our 40 staff/40 attorney office has been operating on the same page since 2016.”
– Norfolk, VA Commonwealth’s Attorney Office
“We are very pleased to have received a good independent assessment of at our data infrastructure and quality so that we can make the right improvements and get more complete information about how our office is doing its work.”
– Ramsey County Minnesota Attorney’s Office
