FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 495
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR SCHROER.
1654S.01I KRISTINA MARTIN, Secretary
AN ACT
To amend chapters 27 and 56, RSMo, by adding thereto two new sections relating to reporting
requirements of prosecuting attorneys.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapters 27 and 56, RSMo, are amended by adding 1
thereto two new sections, to be known as sections 27.120 and 2
56.910, to read as follows:3
27.120. The attorney general shall compile a statewide 1
report summarizing the information provided by each 2
prosecuting and circui t attorney under section 56.910 in a 3
uniform fashion and sortable by offense and jurisdiction, 4
make the report available to the public, and submit the 5
report to the governor, the speaker of the house of 6
representatives who shall distribute the report t o the chair 7
of the committee on crime prevention and public safety of 8
the house of representatives or any successor committee, and 9
the president pro tempore of the senate who shall distribute 10
the report to the chair of the committee on judiciary and 11
civil and criminal jurisprudence or any successor 12
committee. Each prosecuting and circuit attorney shall, to 13
assist the attorney general in compiling a uniform report, 14
comply with any requests by the attorney general to provide 15
additional, disaggregate d, or clarifying information. 16
56.910. Each prosecuting and circuit attorney's office 1
shall share an annual report by the first of March of each 2 SB 495 2
year with the governor and the attorney general. Such 3
report shall be made available to the public upon request. 4
Each report shall contain, at a minimum, for the previous 5
year, all aggregate, non -personally identifying data in each 6
category of offense regarding the handling of cases by the 7
office including: 8
(1) Intake processes, in cluding the number of arrests 9
or referrals made for each category of offense and: 10
(a) The number accepted for prosecution; 11
(b) The number referred to a diversion program before 12
charging; and 13
(c) The number dismissed with a categorical 14
description of why the case was so dismissed; 15
(2) Disposals for each category of offense, including 16
the number of cases: 17
(a) Disposed of by a diversion program; 18
(b) Adjudicated guilty by a plea agreement, or 19
dismissed due to a guilty pl ea to a different charge; 20
(c) Dismissed for prosecution by another authority; 21
(d) Dismissed due to suppression of evidence; 22
(e) Dismissed due to other legal defect; 23
(f) Dismissed due to refusal of one or more witnesses 24
to cooperate; 25
(g) Dismissed for any other reason; 26
(h) Adjudicated by trial to the court, with the number 27
of people who were convicted; 28
(i) Adjudicated by jury trial, with the number of 29
people who were convicted; and 30
(3) Disposition for each c ategory of offense, 31
including the number of people: 32
(a) Sentenced to incarceration; 33 SB 495 3
(b) Sentenced to county jail with the average length 34
of such sentence; 35
(c) Sentenced to a state correctional center, with the 36
average length of such se ntence; and 37
(d) Sentenced to probation. 38