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| 2 | 2 | | FIRST REGULAR SESSION |
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| 3 | 3 | | SENATE BILL NO. 495 |
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| 4 | 4 | | 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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| 5 | 5 | | INTRODUCED BY SENATOR SCHROER. |
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| 6 | 6 | | 1654S.01I KRISTINA MARTIN, Secretary |
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| 7 | 7 | | AN ACT |
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| 8 | 8 | | To amend chapters 27 and 56, RSMo, by adding thereto two new sections relating to reporting |
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| 9 | 9 | | requirements of prosecuting attorneys. |
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| 11 | 11 | | Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: |
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| 12 | 12 | | Section A. Chapters 27 and 56, RSMo, are amended by adding 1 |
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| 13 | 13 | | thereto two new sections, to be known as sections 27.120 and 2 |
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| 14 | 14 | | 56.910, to read as follows:3 |
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| 15 | 15 | | 27.120. The attorney general shall compile a statewide 1 |
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| 16 | 16 | | report summarizing the information provided by each 2 |
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| 17 | 17 | | prosecuting and circui t attorney under section 56.910 in a 3 |
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| 18 | 18 | | uniform fashion and sortable by offense and jurisdiction, 4 |
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| 19 | 19 | | make the report available to the public, and submit the 5 |
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| 20 | 20 | | report to the governor, the speaker of the house of 6 |
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| 21 | 21 | | representatives who shall distribute the report t o the chair 7 |
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| 22 | 22 | | of the committee on crime prevention and public safety of 8 |
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| 23 | 23 | | the house of representatives or any successor committee, and 9 |
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| 24 | 24 | | the president pro tempore of the senate who shall distribute 10 |
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| 25 | 25 | | the report to the chair of the committee on judiciary and 11 |
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| 26 | 26 | | civil and criminal jurisprudence or any successor 12 |
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| 27 | 27 | | committee. Each prosecuting and circuit attorney shall, to 13 |
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| 28 | 28 | | assist the attorney general in compiling a uniform report, 14 |
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| 29 | 29 | | comply with any requests by the attorney general to provide 15 |
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| 30 | 30 | | additional, disaggregate d, or clarifying information. 16 |
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| 31 | 31 | | 56.910. Each prosecuting and circuit attorney's office 1 |
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| 32 | 32 | | shall share an annual report by the first of March of each 2 SB 495 2 |
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| 33 | 33 | | year with the governor and the attorney general. Such 3 |
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| 34 | 34 | | report shall be made available to the public upon request. 4 |
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| 35 | 35 | | Each report shall contain, at a minimum, for the previous 5 |
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| 36 | 36 | | year, all aggregate, non -personally identifying data in each 6 |
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| 37 | 37 | | category of offense regarding the handling of cases by the 7 |
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| 38 | 38 | | office including: 8 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (1) Intake processes, in cluding the number of arrests 9 |
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| 40 | 40 | | or referrals made for each category of offense and: 10 |
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| 41 | 41 | | (a) The number accepted for prosecution; 11 |
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| 42 | 42 | | (b) The number referred to a diversion program before 12 |
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| 43 | 43 | | charging; and 13 |
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| 44 | 44 | | (c) The number dismissed with a categorical 14 |
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| 45 | 45 | | description of why the case was so dismissed; 15 |
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| 46 | 46 | | (2) Disposals for each category of offense, including 16 |
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| 47 | 47 | | the number of cases: 17 |
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| 48 | 48 | | (a) Disposed of by a diversion program; 18 |
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| 49 | 49 | | (b) Adjudicated guilty by a plea agreement, or 19 |
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| 50 | 50 | | dismissed due to a guilty pl ea to a different charge; 20 |
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| 51 | 51 | | (c) Dismissed for prosecution by another authority; 21 |
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| 52 | 52 | | (d) Dismissed due to suppression of evidence; 22 |
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| 53 | 53 | | (e) Dismissed due to other legal defect; 23 |
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| 54 | 54 | | (f) Dismissed due to refusal of one or more witnesses 24 |
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| 55 | 55 | | to cooperate; 25 |
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| 56 | 56 | | (g) Dismissed for any other reason; 26 |
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| 57 | 57 | | (h) Adjudicated by trial to the court, with the number 27 |
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| 58 | 58 | | of people who were convicted; 28 |
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| 59 | 59 | | (i) Adjudicated by jury trial, with the number of 29 |
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| 60 | 60 | | people who were convicted; and 30 |
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| 61 | 61 | | (3) Disposition for each c ategory of offense, 31 |
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| 62 | 62 | | including the number of people: 32 |
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| 63 | 63 | | (a) Sentenced to incarceration; 33 SB 495 3 |
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| 64 | 64 | | (b) Sentenced to county jail with the average length 34 |
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| 65 | 65 | | of such sentence; 35 |
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| 66 | 66 | | (c) Sentenced to a state correctional center, with the 36 |
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| 67 | 67 | | average length of such se ntence; and 37 |
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| 68 | 68 | | (d) Sentenced to probation. 38 |
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