2005
Oregon Laws Ch 473 (SB 914) Directs that presentence
investigations provide: "an analysis of what disposition is most likely
to reduce the offender's criminal conduct, explain why that disposition
would have that effect and provide an assessment of the availability to
the offender of any relevant programs or treatment in or out of custody"
2005
Oregon Laws Ch 474 (SB 919) Directs the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission
to "conduct a study to determine whether it is possible to incorporate
consideration of reducing criminal conduct and the crime rate into the
commission's sentencing guidelines and, if it is possible, the means of
doing so."
2003
Oregon Laws Chapter 669 (SB 267)This law encourages the Department
of Corrections to use "Evidence-Based" treatment programs
2001
Oregon Laws Chapter 936 (HB 3372) Requires the Oregon
Department of Administrative Services to designate a criminal justice agency
to operate a criminal justice information program to coordinate data and
to further the functions prescribed by 1997 Or Laws Ch 433:
1997 Oregon Laws Chapter 433
(HB 2229) This law charges criminal justice agencies in
Oregon to gather, maintain, and share data so as to allow us to see correlations
between sanctions and programs and future criminal conduct.
1989 Oregon Laws Chapter 790, § 7a (ORS
135.980) Required the Department of Corrections to
establish a directory of public and private programs for crime reduction
and the claims of effectiveness of those programs. The DOC was to
report a plan for measuring the actual effectiveness of the programs to
the next legislative session. Almost all listed programs answered
"Claim of effectiveness" with "None." The "plan" "reported" to the next
session was modest, unenthusiastically outlined, reported virtually invisibly,
and completely ignored; the old link to the 1989 session law works no more
--see: http://www.leg.state.or.us/ors/1987.pdf
Today's DOC directory
is robust, web-based and state-wide -- but still lacks any assessment of
effectiveness. What's left of 135.980 is much more modest.
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1997
Oregon Judicial Conference Resolution #1 This directs
judges in sentencing decisions -- to the extent that they try to serve
public safety--to consider and invite advocates to address what works to
reduce criminal behavior; it also urges them to obtain education
in what works.xx
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2001 Oregon Criminal
Justice Commission Public Safety Plan The first recommendation:
"Oregon should develop availability of offender-based data in order to
track an offender through the criminal justice system and to facilitate
data-driven pre-trial release, sentencing and correctional supervision
decisions."
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Justice
2020: A Vision for Oregon's Courts (2001) The
"Partnerships" vision includes "We use preventive measures and effective
sentencing to reduce criminal behavior;" the strategies include "Employ
Technology to Improve Sentencing Practices and Data-Sharing Systems."
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Final Report of the Governor's
Working Group on Criminal Justice Effectiveness Data and Research NeedsThis
is the product of the work group convened pursuant to an executive order
of Gov. Kitzhaber to make recommendations regarding the need for
"program and performance data . . . readily available to judges, attorneys,
and other practitioners to result in decisions based on the effectiveness
of correctional programs in reducing . . . future criminal conduct." The
Final Report proposed a state-wide Public Safety Data Warehouse.
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Oregon State Police Public Safety Data WarehouseThis
OSP site tracked developments in construction of a PSDW. (Note:
this OSP project and link have been discontinued- details on request; Oregon
OJD's eCourt [state-wide court technology upgrade] contemplates data warehouse
and analytics to support sentencing and other dispositions with best practices)
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