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Report to the Legislature: Disposition of Criminal Cases According to Race and Ethnicity of Defendant as Required by Penal Code Section 1170.45
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Summary
Penal Code section 1170.45 directs the Judicial Council to report annually on the statewide disposition of criminal cases according to defendants’ race and ethnicity. The Judicial Council staff submitted this annual report on March 1, 2019. The data used in this report come from the Offender-Based Transaction Statistics data set, which is a compilation of data on adult felony arrest dispositions produced annually by the California Department of Justice. This report describes patterns seen in criminal case dispositions by race/ethnicity and tests whether any available legal or demographic information can account for the patterns seen.