The State Justice Statistics (SJS) Program is designed to maintain and enhance each state's capacity to address criminal justice issues through collection and analysis of data. The SJS Program provides support to each state to coordinate and conduct statistical activities within the state, conduct research to estimate impacts of legislative and policy changes, and serve as a liaison in assisting BJS to gather data from respondent agencies within their states.
The Georgia Statistical Analysis Center (GSAC) is located within the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council. The GSAC has been tasked to produce policy-relevant research using CCH and state agency administrative data, supports juvenile justice reform efforts, and the SAAs responsibility in managing state and federal juvenile justice dollars. The GSAC has and continually collaborates with state agencies and Applied Research Solutions (ARS) to conduct several of the projects it has proposed in the past.
Under the 2016 SJS program the SAC will conduct Phase II of the data repository project from their FY 14 SJS grant. In 2014, GA CJCC partnered with criminal justice and law enforcement agencies and built a Sharepoint data-sharing highway to increase access to state criminal justice statistical data and routinize data sharing. This project, Phase II, will use the data sets (also known as flat files) obtained via the SharePoint portal and CJCCs internal data collections to build a SQL data repository to better manage the information. Flat files consist of the aggregate-level data collected by the CJCC, Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the Georgia Department of Corrections and the Department of Juvenile Justice. The current datasets shared include UCR Part I and II, UCR Family Violence Incident report data, Department of Juvenile Justice Population Summary Data, and Department of Corrections Intake Summary Data.
Once collected, the GA CJCC will use Tableau or some similar data visualization software to develop sample dashboards for external or internal consumer use. The GA CJCC believes that the development and use of this advance visualization project will spur conversations about more robust and cross agency collaboration to establish public dashboards.
