Bill > SB495

This bill creates new reporting requirements for prosecuting and circuit attorneys across Missouri. Each prosecuting attorney's office must submit an annual report to the governor and attorney general by March 1st, which will be publicly available. The report must include detailed, non-personally identifying aggregate data about case handling for each offense category, covering three main areas: intake processes (number of arrests/referrals, cases accepted for prosecution, referred to diversion, or dismissed), case disposals (including different types of dismissals, plea agreements, trial outcomes), and sentencing dispositions (including incarceration, jail, state correctional center sentences, and probation). The attorney general will then compile a statewide report summarizing these individual reports in a uniform, sortable format, which will be made public and distributed to key legislative leaders, specifically the speaker of the house and senate president pro tempore. Prosecuting attorneys are required to assist the attorney general by providing any additional clarifying information needed to compile the comprehensive report, ensuring transparency in the criminal justice system's case processing and outcomes.

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