Founding States, Counties & Cities

The Justice Counts initiative thrives off the participation of states, counties, cities, and individual agencies around the country. These participants are leading the way to improving criminal justice data. We applaud their efforts in making their data more usable and accessible to help inform other agencies and policymakers about the trends in their work.  
 
Interesting in participating? Email justicecounts@csg.org to get involved! 

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Participating Jurisdictions

Alpha Tester Agencies

Alpha testers are a group of boundary-pushing criminal justice agencies across the country that signed on to be the first to test the digital infrastructure and help build out its functionality. They made significant contributions to the digital infrastructure as it stands today. 

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Founding States 

Founding States (or beta testers) are committed to better data across their criminal justice systems. Rather than single agencies opting into Justice Counts, Founding States take a system-level approach and strive for adoption of Justice Counts metrics in all sectors. 

Founding States receive intensive short-term assistance to onboard at least one agency from each of the seven Justice Counts sectors, as well as direct support for policymakers to understand and effectively use the metrics to drive policy and budget decisions. There are multiple ways to become a Founding State. 

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Implementation Grant States 

The U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs’ Bureau of Justice Assistance ran a grant competition in 2022 for states to work toward broad, systemwide implementation of Justice Counts metrics. Grantees receive three years of funding and technical assistance to map out and implement their approach to agency recruitment and use of the metrics, with a goal of achieving Justice Counts participation from a majority of criminal justice agencies in their states. 

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