MS HB587

Circuit, municipal, and justice court clerks must report detailed felony and misdemeanor case information to the Administrative Office of Courts semiannually beginning January 1, 2015, including charge dates, offense codes, dispositions, sentences, and demographic data in electronic format

Drug courts must submit monthly statistics on program participants, including enrollment numbers, successful completions, dropouts, new arrests during participation, and program violations with resulting sanctions

Mississippi Department of Corrections must collect and report prison data including admissions, sentence lengths, recidivism rates (defined as new felony conviction within 3 years of release), and probation/post-release supervision statistics

State Parole Board must report parole supervision data including number of parolees, hearings held, grant rates, revocation numbers for technical violations versus new offenses, and county jail wait times for revocation hearings

Court clerks who fail to submit required reports face consequences including ineligibility for continuing education certification, loss of compensation, and for justice court clerks, termination; a $0.50 assessment on criminal convictions (excluding traffic offenses) funds the reporting requirements