This data is provided to help with analysis of various violations charged throughout the City of Austin.

Updated the Municipal Court Caseload:
This data is provided to help with analysis of various violations charged throughout the City of Austin.
"Case Status" and "Race" abbreviations go as follows:
Fields for Race:
A, Asian
B, Black
BA, Black or African American
CD, Client does not know
CR, Client refused
DNC, Data not calculated
H, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
L, Hispanic or Latino
ME, Middle Eastern
MR, Identified Multiple Races
N, Native American or Alaskan
O, Other
U, Unknown
W, White

Case Status (Closed Y/N)
TERMINATED (TERM) and TERMINATED ADMINISTRATIVELY (TERMA) = Y
ACTIVE (ACT) AND INACTIVE(IN) INACTIVE = N
Active, Inactive, Terminated, Terminated Administratively
Inactive doesn't mean the cases is closed only TERM and TERMA.

This dataset supports S.D.6 of SD23.
The Downtown Austin Community Court (DACC) was established to address quality of life and public order offenses occurring in the downtown Austin area utilizing a restorative justice court model. DACC offers alternatives to fines and fees for defendants to handle their cases such as community service restitution and participation in rehabilitation services. This measure highlights to what extent DACC motivates individuals to handle their cases in a manner that is non-punitive and does not create a barrier for individuals in their future endeavors. DACC’s priority population is individuals experiencing homelessness and the program’s main goal is to permanently stabilize individuals experiencing homelessness.

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the date range for this data is FY15 - March of FY2020.

Data source:electronic court case management platform.
Calculation: numerator: number of cases with a disposition of an alternative form of adjudication Denominator: total number of cases with a disposition
Measure time period: Annual (Fiscal Year)
Automated: no

Date of last description update: 4/1/2020

This dataset supports measure S.D.4.c of SD23.
The Downtown Austin Community Court (DACC) was established to address quality of life and public order offenses occurring in the downtown Austin area utilizing a restorative justice court model. DACC’s priority population consists of individuals experiencing homelessness and the program’s main goal is to permanently stabilize individuals experiencing homelessness. To effectively serve these individuals, DACC created an Intensive Case Management (ICM) Program, which uses a client-centered and housing-focused approach. The ICM Program focuses on rehabilitating and stabilizing individuals using an evidenced-based model of wraparound interventions to help them achieve long-term stability. Because individuals participating in case management are literally homeless, case managers must actively seek their clients in the community through outreach activities and often times work on behalf of the client via collateral engagement with other social service and housing providers. This measure highlights case management activities accomplished via outreach and collateral engagement.

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Data source: manually tracked internally on a monthly checkbox report
Calculation: Numerator: number of clients served through outreach Denominator: total number of cases filed that are homeless
this dataset on the portal covers an annual range based on the city's fiscal year.

This dataset supports S.D.5 of SD23. This measure calculates how long it takes to adjudicate a case from the time when the case was filed.
The Downtown Austin Community Court (DACC) is dedicated to processing cases efficiently and in alignment with nationally established time standards to reduce delay and ensure timely justice, but cases related to individuals experiencing homelessness typically take longer than 180 days to adjudicate due to the case management activities associated with these cases. Case management activities include but are not limited to acquiring birth certificates, Social Security cards, accessing substance use, mental health and medical services and acquiring permanent housing. Cases related to non-homeless individuals are typically adjudicated within 30-180 days. DACC monitors the length of time it takes to process cases and makes necessary adjustments to ensure compliance with time standards.
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The dataset for court cases adjudicated within case processing time standards covers a time period of Fiscal years 2016-first quarter of Fiscal year 2020.
Data source: court's electronic case management system
Calculation: Numerator-case disposition date Denominator- the date the case was filed.
Measure Time Period: Quarterly (Fiscal Year)
Automated: no

Date of last description update: 4/1/2020

The dataset supports measure S.D.4.a of SD23.

The Austin Municipal Court offers services via in person, phone, mail, email, online, in the community, in multiple locations, and during non-traditional hours to make it easier and more convenient for individuals to handle court business. This measure tracks the percentage of customers that utilize court services outside of normal business hours, defined as 8am-5pm Monday-Friday, and how many payments were made by methods other than in person. This measure helps determine how Court services are being used and enables the Court to allocate its resources to best meet the needs of the public. Historically, almost 30% of the operational hours are outside of traditional hours and the average percentage of payments made by mail and online has been over 59%.

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Data source: electronic case management system and manual tracking of payments received via mail.
Calculation: Business hours are manually calculated annually. - A query is run from the court’s case management system to calculate how many monetary transactions were posted. S.D.4.a: Numerator: Number of payments received by mail is entered manually by the Customer Service unit that processes all incoming mail. S.D.4.a Denominator: Total number of web payments is calculated using a query to calculate a total number of payments with a payment type ‘web’ in the case management system.
Measure time period: Annual (Fiscal Year)
Automated: No
Date of last description update: 4/10/2020

This dataset supports measure S.D.4.b, S.D.6 of SD23.
The Downtown Austin Community Court (DACC) was established to address quality of life and public order offenses occurring in the downtown Austin area utilizing a restorative justice court model. DACC offers alternatives to fines and fees for defendants to handle their cases such as community service restitution and participation in rehabilitation services. Defendants who reside outside of a 40-mile radius from DACC are offered an opportunity to handle their case through correspondence action, meaning the entire judicial process can be handled through email or postal mail. Correspondence action eliminates an undue burden requiring a defendant to travel back to Austin to appear for their case and it allows for quicker access to court services of Austin residents by reducing the number of individuals required to appear for their case. This measure tracks how many cases involving non-homeless individuals have been handled through correspondence action recorded in the court's case management system.
The data source for number and percentage of instances where people access court services other than in person for DACC has a annual range based on fiscal year 2015- first quarter fiscal year 2020.
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Data source: Data for this measure is collected by DACC staff inputting information from citations issued in DACC’s jurisdiction and from court processes. All data is entered in DACC’s electronic court case management platform.

Calculation S.D.4.b Numerator= number of cases with the correspondence action/Denominator= total number of cases involving non-homeless individuals.

Measure Time Period: Annually (Fiscal Year)

Automated: no

Date of last description update: 4/1/2020

This dataset supports S.D.5 of SD23. This measure calculates how long it takes to adjudicate a case from the time when the case was filed. Austin Municipal Court is dedicated to processing cases efficiently and in alignment with nationally established time standards to reduce delay and ensure timely justice. Cases are typically adjudicated within 30-180 days. If case processing time standards are consistently exceeded, the overall administration of justice may be compromised resulting in inequitable outcomes and the loss of public trust. AMC monitors the length of time it takes to process cases and makes necessary adjustments to ensure compliance with time standards. View more details and insights related to this measure on the story page: https://data.austintexas.gov/stories/s/99up-wwsi The dataset for court cases adjudicated within case processing time standards covers a time period of Fiscal years 2016-first quarter of Fiscal year 2020. Data source: court's electronic case management system Calculation: Numerator-case disposition date Denominator- the date the case was filed. Measure Time Period: Quarterly (Fiscal Year) Automated: no Date of last description update: 4/1/2020

This data is provided to help with analysis of various violations charged throughout the City of Austin.

"Case Status" and "Race" abbreviations go as follows:
Fields for Race:
A, Asian
B, Black
BA, Black or African American
CD, Client does not know
CR, Client refused
DNC, Data not calculated
H, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
L, Hispanic or Latino
ME, Middle Eastern
MR, Identified Multiple Races
N, Native American or Alaskan
O, Other
U, Unknown
W, White

Case Status (Closed Y/N)
TERMINATED (TERM) and TERMINATED ADMINISTRATIVELY (TERMA) = Y
ACTIVE (ACT) AND INACTIVE(IN) INACTIVE = N
Active, Inactive, Terminated, Terminated Administratively
Inactive doesn't mean the cases is closed only TERM and TERMA.

Number and percentage of all cases granted alternative form of adjudication (e.g. community service) in lieu of monetary penalties for those not able to pay.