Bill > SF324

This bill requires the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission to create and maintain a comprehensive, publicly accessible online database containing detailed criminal sentencing information. The database must allow users to search and filter sentencing data across multiple fields, including case number, defendant name, offense date, judicial district, county, year of sentencing, judge, specific crime, criminal history score, offense severity, sentence type and length, and details about sentencing guideline departures. The searchable database will provide transparency by enabling users to perform complex searches, sort information, generate aggregated reports, and download data. Users can search using multiple criteria simultaneously and access a wide range of sentencing-related information while protecting personally identifiable or non-public data. The bill also includes an appropriation of unspecified amounts in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 to develop and maintain the database, with an established base funding for fiscal year 2028 and subsequent years. The goal appears to be increasing public access to and understanding of criminal sentencing practices across Minnesota.

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https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=Senate&f=SF0324&ssn=0&y=2025