Public Safety Assessment

About the Program

Category: Information Technology (Best in Category)

Year: 2023

The Public Safety Assessment (PSA) is an actuarial pretrial assessment that predicts the likelihood of: Failure to Appear in court pretrial (FTA) New Criminal Arrest while on pretrial release (NCA) New Violent Criminal Arrest while on pretrial release (NVCA) The PSA generates scaled scores of 1 to 6 for FTA and NCA and generates a flag to indicate whether a person presents an elevated likelihood of NVCA. When used responsibly and with fidelity, the PSA promotes transparency and consistency and supports improved pretrial outcomes. Assessing released people’s three outcomes allows jurisdictions to calculate aggregated performance measures for their monthly or annual pretrial reports and to collect data for the statistical analyses used to validate the PSA for the local population. Integration: Criminal Justice Information Systems (current charges, open cases, closed cases, booking/inmate information, local criminal priors, and failure to appear. Automated Arrest Forms (A-Forms) Mugshots Azure Active Directory (single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, B2B, employees and external users) Benefits: Treating everyone with dignity and respect. Generating equitable outcomes for all people, eliminating racial, ethnic, gender, and economic disparities. Implementing services that meet people’s needs while also prioritizing the safety of victims and the community. Reducing the work process of criminal background investigation. Reducing jail population.