§ 21-905 Demographic data of the juvenile justice system.
AC § 21-905
By January 15, 2025, and no later than 90 days after the end of each quarter thereafter, ACS shall submit a report about the demographics of juveniles in the juvenile justice system to the speaker of the council and post such report on ACS’s website. All data contained in such report must be in a machine-readable format and include a comparison of the data in the current reporting period to the data in the 4 preceding reporting periods, to the extent such information is available. The report required by this section must be accessible through the city’s open data web portal. Such report must include the following information: a. Admissions to detention facilities.
1.The number of admissions during the previous quarter to the following facilities: (a) secure and specialized secure detention facilities, disaggregated by facility; and (b) non-secure detention facilities.
2.The data provided pursuant to paragraph 1 of this subdivision shall be disaggregated by the following factors: (a) age; (b) gender; (c) race; (d) zip code of residence; (e) for youth remanded to a detention facility by a court, the most serious charged offense on the court petition, complaint, or indictment at the time ACS assumed custody, further disaggregated by the youth’s age, gender, and race; (f) for youth brought to detention by police, the top arrest charge at the time ACS assumed custody, further disaggregated by the youth’s age, gender, and race; and (g) whether such youth is in foster care. b. Demographic data for detention facilities.
3.During the prior quarter, the average and median bail amounts imposed by the criminal court on youth in ACS custody and the percentage of youth in ACS custody who were remanded by the criminal court to detention without the imposition of bail, disaggregated by juvenile and adolescent offenders; and 4. The number of adolescent offenders in the facility on the last day of the reporting period who are serving a sentence in specialized secure detention, further disaggregated by top charge at sentencing, age, gender, and race. c. Admissions to placement facilities.
