Raised Bill No. 1018 - Prosecutorial Accountability Summary

• Makes the Criminal Justice Commission an autonomous body within the Executive Department instead of being within the Division of Criminal Justice, effective October 1, 2021.

• Reduces state's attorney term length from eight years to five years and requires the Criminal Justice Commission to conduct biennial performance evaluations of all state's attorneys beginning July 1, 2022.

• Requires the Division of Criminal Justice Advisory Board to develop and adopt uniform written policies by December 31, 2021, covering 14 subject areas including charging decisions, pretrial release, discovery, plea agreements, sentencing recommendations, and prosecutorial ethics.

• Mandates performance reports for state's attorneys based on data measuring disparities in outcomes by demographic groups, case disposition rates, proportionality of outcomes, office management metrics, and community health impacts.

• Expands mandatory prosecutor training effective July 1, 2022, to include racial bias, systemic collateral consequences of arrest and incarceration, conviction alternatives, victim interview techniques, mental illness and trauma, and reentry strategies.