The Dashboard in action

On February 25, 2021, the Washington State Supreme Court issued the Blake decision, overturning the state’s long-standing drug possession statute. Chief Justice Stephens said:

[t]he fact of racial and ethnic disproportionality in our criminal justice system is indisputable.”

Chief Justice Debra L. Stephens

Overnight, criminal justice stakeholders needed to identify the hundreds of thousands of people affected by this unconstitutional statute. Anthony and the AEJG team used their dashboard to quickly identify relevant data and test this claim.