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The Census of State Courts (CSC) is a new collection for the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). The CSC is intended to provide a complete census of all state and local courts operational in the United States, and to compile important staffing data and information about the case types heard in state municipal, trial, and appellate courts. This census serves as foundational work to build...
Analysis of Publicly Available Court Data (APACD) is a developmental effort to evaluate the availability, quality, and representativeness of publicly available court data in the U.S., determine any gaps in publicly available data and suitable alternative sources of data, and propose a nationally representative sampling plan to collect court data to support the production of national estimates of court activity. Because this work is developmental...