Solutions
Our data tools and services help communities drive the change they want to see.
Groundwork and Technical Assistance
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.
Commons
Commons is a community-driven data tool that helps shape criminal justice policy.
Developed with the public, Commons makes criminal justice data accessible and transparent, so communities have access to how their local criminal justice systems are handling cases.
Community Engagement
Our Community Engagement services bridge the gap between data and change, fostering accountability. We empower communities to leverage data effectively, offering outreach, bridge-building, and data literacy education. Through community engagement, we enable better data-driven decision-making.
Are you All In?
To scale our mission toward empowering communities to reshape the criminal justice system, we launched All In, a peer-to-peer network that connects individuals across the country to support the effort to get to a more transparent, accessible, and accountable system.
National Measurement
Data Portal
One of the largest bodies of standardized county-level criminal justice data in the country offering a snapshot of what’s happening in local courts nationwide across case characteristics like defendant race/ethnicity, age, sex, indigent status and case severity and offense type.
County Report
A printable overview of your county’s performance across all measures, including disparities and outliers.
State Datasets
Complete state datasets for download.
More Tools
Text-based Offense Classification Tool
Designed to harmonize criminal justice offense codes across datasets and jurisdictions for analysis. The tool is a collaboration with the University of Michigan Criminal Justice Administrative Records System.
Textricator
Textricator extracts text from computer-generated PDFs and generates structured data files (CSV or JSON) from the text.
Expr.
Expr. provides a syntax for writing and evaluating logical expressions against data records.
