Caption
Relating to a criminal justice system pretrial and sentencing database established by the Office of Court Administration of the Texas Judicial System.
Session
Read Bill
Bill Status
Failed: Referred to Criminal Justice
Bill Type
Open Records
Position
Monitor
Priority
3
Comments
This sets up a public database, but “deidentifies suspects on the database. Companion is HB 2043 by Bowers.
3/23 Met with folks from the Bail Project and the Texas ACLU. They explained that this bill will be useful for investigative reporters who are doing statistical analyses of bail practices, and that the aggregated “deidentified” data doesn’t endanger public access to identities of suspects through the usual normal channels.
We do not need to take a position
Updated
2023.03.01