ORS: Dashboard-Racial & Ethnic Disparity Home
Racial/Ethnic Disparity (CLEAR Act) Juvenile MOR (JJDP Act)
The Office of Research and Statistics (ORS) is mandated to report annual data from multiple decision points in the criminal justice system pursuant to 24-33.5-518, C.R.S. (Senate Bill 2015-185 - Community Law Enforcement Action Reporting Act [CLEAR Act)]). This page displays the most recent CLEAR Act Report and Dashboard that are available. The "Background" section below presents information necessary to interpret correctly the CLEAR Act Report & Dashboard. Additional resources and links can be found below on reducing disparity in the criminal justice system. Links are also available to prior CLEAR Act Report documents and the 2015 CLEAR Act dashboard.
REPORT DOCUMENT: 2022 CLEAR Act Report (pdf)
The link to the most recent CLEAR Act Report is above. Links to prior CLEAR Act Reports are available below.
DASHBOARD:
Race & Ethnic Disparity in Criminal Justice - Judicial District Map
A button link to the Statewide & Judicial District Dashboards is available below. A new browser tab will open displaying the Statewide data dashboard and a filter to set the display to specific Judicial Districts from CY 2016 to present. The link to the initial 2015 Clear Act dashboard is available below. For reference, a map of judicial districts/counties and a comparable text-based list of judicial districts/counties are provided below. Please contact us for assistance in accessing the dashboards or to request data for a judicial district.
Statewide & Judicial District Dashboards
- List of Judicial Districts and related Counties
List of judicial districts and related counties:
- 1st Judicial District (Gilpin, Jefferson)
- 2nd Judicial District (Denver)
- 3rd Judicial District (Huerfano, Las Animas)
- 4th Judicial District (El Paso, Teller)
- 5th Judicial District (Clear Creek, Eagle, Lake, Summit)
- 6th Judicial District (Archuleta, La Plata, San Juan)
- 7th Judicial District (Delta, Gunnison, Hinsdale, Montrose, Ouray, San Miguel)
- 8th Judicial District (Jackson, Larimer)
- 9th Judicial District (Garfield, Rio Blanco, Pitkin)
- 10th Judicial District (Pueblo)
- 11th Judicial District (Chaffee, Custer, Fremont, Park)
- 12th Judicial District (Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache)
- 13th Judicial District (Kit Carson, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Yuma)
- 14th Judicial District (Grand, Moffat, Routt)
- 15th Judicial District (Baca, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Prowers)
- 16th Judicial District (Bent, Crowley, Otero)
- 17th Judicial District (Adams, Broomfield)
- 18th Judicial District (Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert, Lincoln)
- 19th Judicial District (Weld)
- 20th Judicial District (Boulder)
- 21st Judicial District (Mesa)
- 22nd Judicial District (Dolores, Montezuma)
- 23rd Judicial District (in 2025)
Note: Starting in 2025, the 18th JD comprises Arapahoe County only; the 23rd JD comprises Douglas, Elbert, & Lincoln Counties.
- Background
Reporting pursuant to the S.B 2015-185 CLEAR Act must include a report document and display data in a dashboard. These data must reflect decisions made at multiple points in the justice system process. Data are provided for analysis by law enforcement agencies, the Judicial Department, and the adult Parole Board. The CLEAR Act also requires that data be displayed by race/ethnicity, by gender and by offense type.
These two reporting mechanisms (the document and the data dashboard) should be viewed together because each provides unique analyses and summaries. The dashboard displays data related to arrests and summons, court filings and probation revocations. Only the dashboard includes detailed offense categories, that is, 17 arrest offense categories and 25 court case crime categories. Only the report document provides analyses of data submitted by the adult Parole Board and the impact of concurrent cases and prior history on court sentences.
Because it is difficult to identify patterns in analyses that involve too many crime categories, the report and the dashboard present a summary of the findings by collapsing offenses into four broad crime categories: Drugs, Property, Violent, and Other. Individual crime types within these categories are included in the dashboard. Some crime types include multiple types of offenses. Please see Appendix A and Appendix B in the associated report document for information on crime classification. The crime types include inchoate offenses (attempt, conspiracy, and solicitation).
Race/ethnicity was determined using a statistical model which is described in Appendix C of the report document.
Finally, the cases represented in the arrests, filings, sentences, and parole board sections are not necessarily the same cases. This is due to a lag between when an arrest results in a filing, when a filing results in a sentence, and when an offender is paroled.- Reducing Disparity
The following resources are offered for individuals, criminal justice planning committees, and interdisciplinary teams addressing disproportionate minority impact.
The Brennan Center (at the New York University School of Law) offers a report with guidance on strategies to reduce disparities in local jurisdictions:
Site: Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Jails: Recommendations for Local Practice
Report: "Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Jails: Recommendations for Local Practice (2015)"The Sentencing Project provides an Issues Section on Racial Justice with links to reports, policy briefs and a newsletter. (See also, Reducing Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice System: A Manual for Practitioners and Policymakers (2020))
National Research Council, Reforming Juvenile Justice: A Developmental Approach (2013). See Chapter 8: Reducing Racial/Ethnic Disparities.
The W. Haywood Burns Institute is a national think tank and technical assistance provider, working to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities. The Institute works by facilitating collaboration between system stakeholders and community members as they apply a racial equity lens to data-driven justice reform efforts.
Prosecutorial Performance Indicators (PPIs) "measure performance toward three goals: Capacity & Efficiency, Community Safety & Well-being, and Fairness & Justice. The PPI website presents the indicators, guides, training materials, and sample data from partner offices to illustrate how the PPIs work in diverse jurisdictions."
The National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys offers an article that "presents a framework for understanding the sources of racial disparity in the criminal justice system and suggests actions that defense attorneys can take to address the problem." See, How Defense Attorneys Can Eliminate Racial Disparities in Criminal Justice.
- Prior CLEAR Act Reports
2018 CLEAR Act Report (PDF) (see links below to 2018 CLEAR Act Reports for individual judicial districts)
2016 CLEAR Act Report (PDF) (see links below to 2016 CLEAR Act Reports for individual judicial districts)
2015 CLEAR Act Report (PDF) and Data Dashboard (Due to differences in data reporting during the initial data collection year, the 2015 data is not included in the dashboard above.)
2018 Judicial District Reports
2016 Judicial District Reports