Criminal Justice (Data Reporting)

This bill (S 890) requires New Jersey's Attorney General to publish quarterly crime data collected from police departments on the state website within six months after each quarter ends. It also sets a deadline of one year and one day for the Attorney General to deliver an annual crime data report to the Governor and Legislature. The law directly affects the Attorney General's office and the Division of State Police, which will manage the data repository. These deadlines replace the current lack of specified timelines for releasing this public safety information.

This bill requires New Jersey's Department of Corrections (DOC) to submit an annual report to the Governor and Legislature detailing specific operational data from all state correctional facilities. The report must include facility occupancy rates, incidents of use of force (with injury details), numbers of pregnant or mentally ill inmates, recidivism rates, reentry services provided (like ID documents or social security cards), officer training demographics, overtime pay, and commutation credit adjustments - all without including personally identifiable inmate information. The data must be categorized both cumulatively and by individual facility. This transparency measure affects DOC's reporting obligations but does not change correctional policies or practices.