Topic: data oversight
Posts related to data oversight
Texas Jail Data: Phase 1
January 23, 2023A major focus at the Texas Justice Initiative is gathering and collecting data related to the Texas criminal justice
system that is public but isn't made available in convenient or user-friendly ways. By making this data more
easily accessible, we hope to provide context and insight on the Texas criminal justice system. We’... Read more2021 Deaths in Custody decline from previous year
May 24, 2022The good news*: the number of people who died in the custody of Texas law enforcement went down in 2021
after peaking the previous year. The bad news: 2021's total — 906 deaths, according to reports filed with the
state of Texas through May 1, 2022 — was still higher than every other year but 2020. Deaths in cu... Read moreCOVID-19 data scant during Delta variant wave
October 4, 2021For months, Texas has been battling the highly contagious Delta strain of the
coronavirus. After a surge in the beginning of 2021, deaths due to COVID-19 were
somewhat low in the spring – but then they started to climb. And despit... Read more
Texas Attorney General’s Sites for Death and Shooting Reports Go Dark
June 15, 2021For six weeks this spring, the Texas Office of the Attorney General’s websites that house reports on
officer-involved shootings and deaths in custody were malfunctioning, cutting off access to records that detail
important (and often lethal) interactions between civilians and law enforcement. Every week, law e... Read moreThis is How We Watchdog
December 21, 2020We frequently mention that we “watchdog” the data that we work with as much as possible, but I thought I’d peel
that back a bit. What do TJI’s oversight efforts look like? Each month, I get new data from the Texas Office of the
Attorney General reflecting the previous month's reported deaths in custody and shootings of and... Read more