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Retain anonymized PII for ability to correlate trends with individuals without revealing identity #102

Closed earlofurl closed 3 years ago

earlofurl commented 4 years ago

This will largely be up to the legal team, but it would be useful to be able to store personally identifying information such as the arresting officer, judge, and attorneys in an anonymized but consistent form.

By retaining that data we would be able to track trends in, for example, an officer's ratio of arrests by race, or a judge's sentencing by race.

One useful trend to track would be an officer's frequency of charging for "Resisting an Officer/Arrest", because this charge can be an indicator of a more violent or abusive officer. Especially if this correlates with the charge being applied more often to POC.

With this sort of data we could draw useful conclusions about the behavior of states, counties, courts and departments without naming individuals.

GitGerby commented 4 years ago

Legal council should probably review this; at a minimum implementing some sort of k-anonymity should be considered.