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Today, The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center will convene the inaugural national steering committee meeting for Justice Counts, a first-of-its-kind coalition of 21 leading criminal justice organizations. Justice Counts is the largest, most comprehensive consensus-building initiative designed to help policymakers make better decisions with criminal justice data that’s more timely, less disjointed, and as useful as possible. 

In the coming months, Justice Counts will embark on a scan of public, aggregate criminal justice data, which will provide policymakers in every state with timely information about their criminal justice systems, existing gaps in data collection, and opportunities to do better. The initiative is led by the CSG Justice Center and made possible by the support of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance.

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