Update the rules regarding preliminary hearings for informations and/or convening grand juries to require the charging office/agency to include in their motion/petition evidence to 1) establish that the person being charged is not a member of a legally protected class or 2) if the person being charged is a member of a legally protected class, provide evidence that people in the same legally protected class have not been disproportionately charged with the same charge(s) in relation to the percentage that legally protected class comprises of the general population for the jurisdiction of the charging office/agency.
Update rules to change the grand jury process to make it align with its original purpose as a check on prosecutions by assigning the grand jury its own counsel who is a subject-matter expert that issues discovery requests, cross-examines witnesses, and counsels the grand jury on how to comply with its duty to serve as a check on the prosecutor’s office.
Update rules to prohibit the charging office/agency from making material omissions or material misrepresentations through any of its witnesses during any portion of the proceeding.
Update rules to prohibit the charging office/agency from coercing a witness to provide false or misleading testimony during any portion of the proceeding.
Update rules to allow an indicted person the ability to have an indictment dismissed that was procured with a material omission, material misrepresentation, and/or coerced false or misleading testimony.
Update rules to allow an indicted person the ability to have an indictment dismissed if there is evidence that the person is a member of a legally protected class and that the charging office/agency has disproportionately charged members of that same legally protected class with the same offense(s) based on the demographics of the general population for the jurisdiction of the charging office/agency.
Implement a new policy that requires public reporting of the demographics of the parties of the cases along with case rulings/outcomes on a courtroom, division, sub-circuit (if applicable), circuit and district level.
Implement a new policy whereby judges whose courtroom data reveal disparate treatment, disparate outcomes, disproportionate treatment, disproportionate outcomes, implicit bias, and/or explicit bias, etc. are provided a mandatory corrective action plan.
Create a task force/working group made up of community members, including at least one person with an arrest and/or conviction record, lawyers, and judges to review the public reporting data and update court policy and/or rules to address problems revealed by the data.
Implement a legislation and case law tracking system that ensures that judges are notified of and trained on upcoming changes in the law and/or new laws prior to when they become effective. Additionally, this system should also notify and train judges within 90 calendar days from the case ruling or effective date of laws, whichever is applicable, that immediately go into effect.
Update the rules to prohibit the application of the Doctrine of Finality of Judgment to criminal cases.
Implement a new policy that requires all judges to comply with all changes and/or new laws not later than 90 calendar days from the date the law becomes effective.