Prosecutors are expected to take proactive, engaged responses to community problems, reduce disparities in justice outcomes, build greater trust through community engagement, and increase prosecutorial transparency and accountability. This requires robust data-driven prosecutorial work. The Colorado Lab, in partnership with the Prosecutorial Performance Indicators Project, is working with District Attorneys’ (DA) Offices from across the state to develop internal and external facing data dashboards—designed to assist offices with tracking their progress toward greater efficiency, effectiveness, and fairness through data.
Each of the eight pilot sites has created an internal workgroup with representatives from various parts of the office, including deputy DAs, victim witness staff, investigators, administrative staff, and public information officers. Workgroups are facilitating office-wide communication and identifying the data points most important to support internal operations and external transparency.