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Sexual Assault Data Practices and Transparency Task Force

This page will provide up to date information on the Sexual Assault Data Practices and Transparency Task Force that CJP is convening.

Task Force Mission

Promoting the use of best practices in the data capturing and releasing policies of the criminal justice agencies in Chicago and Cook County regarding their response to sexual assault through the use of data driven and evidence based analysis of their current practices. 

 

Goals

  • To increase the amount, quality, and thoroughness of the data collected by each agency in their felony sex crime case processing.
  • To increase the amount & quality of data that is collected at specific discretion points within each agency’s handling of felony sex crimes cases.
  • To increase the amount, quality, and thoroughness of the data each agency releases related to their felony sex crimes case processing.
  • To increase the level of cooperation between all three agencies in how they collect, maintain, and release data related to felony sex crime case processing.
  • To create a consensus between advocates, researchers, and the agencies about what data fields should be withheld for legitimate privacy concerns and what data should be made available regularly to inform communities. 
  • To produce a report mapping each agency’s data collection, maintaining, and release practices regarding their felony sex crimes case processing.

 

Membership

Co-Chairs:

  • Felicia Davis, First Deputy Chief of Staff for public safety at the City of Chicago

  • Juliana Wiggins Stratton, Director, Cook County Judicial Advisory Council

 

Members:

  • Dr. Megan Alderden, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, & Criminal Justice, St. Xavier University 

  • Dr. Jennifer Cartland, Co-Director, Center for Community Partnerships and Health Promotion, Children's Memorial Research Center

  • Jeanette Castellanos Butt, Community Activist on Violence Against Women

  • State Representative Barbara Flynn Currie, Illinois House of Representatives, 25th District

  • Jessica Curry, Communications Editor, Better Government Association

  • Dawn Dalton, Executive Director, Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women’s Network

  • Barbara Engel, Community Activist, Board Member, Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority

  • Dr. Lisa Frohman, Assistant Professor, Department of Criminology, Law, & Justice, University of Illinois at Chicago

  • Cook County Commissioner Jesus Garcia, 7th District

  • Lisa Gilmore, Director of Education & Victim Advocacy, Center on Halsted

  • Kaethe Morris Hoffer, Legal Director, Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation 

  • Sharmili Majmudar, Executive Director, Rape Victim Advocates

  • Dr. Marian Perkins, Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, Chicago State University

  • Dr. Harold Pollack, Helen Ross Professor of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago

  • Malcolm Rich, Executive Director, Chicago Counsel of Lawyers

  • Dr. Beth Richie, Professor and Director, Institute for Research on Race & Public Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago

  • Diana Rivera, Safety Networks Coordinator, ENLACE Chicago

  • Tracy Siska, Executive Director, Chicago Justice Project (Convener) 

  • Alderman Scott Waguespack, 32nd Ward

  • Tony Wilkens, Senior Vice President, Northern Trust

 

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