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The Illinois Sentencing Policy Advisory Council is assigned to collect and analyze sentencing data, crime trends, and existing correctional resources to support legislative and executive action affecting the use of correctional resources on the State and local levels (730 ILCS 5/5-8-8(d)(1)).

In general, SPAC does not maintain data, but instead accesses data from other agencies, including the following:

  • Criminal History Records Information (CHRI): Administrative data submitted to and maintained by the Illinois State Police containing information about arrests, filings, court dispositions, and sentences imposed. SPAC does not have access to sealed or expunged data from this source.

  • Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC): SPAC receives annual extracts from the IDOC Planning and Research Unit containing information on admissions, exits, and population for prison and mandatory supervised release/parole.

  • Automated Disposition Reporting (ADR): The Administrative Office of Illinois Courts (AOIC) acts as coordinator between the circuit clerks and the state agencies to collect court disposition and sentencing data. Each participating clerk creates an input file which is sent to the AOIC and processed by their Judicial Management Information Systems Division. Upon completion, the information processed is formatted and forwarded to the Illinois State Police and Secretary of State. SPAC has access to the processed data.

  • Clerks of the Circuit Courts and County Probation Departments: SPAC on occasion requests electronic data from a small number of individual clerks and probation offices primarily to supplement other data.

  • Cost Data: SPAC uses cost estimates from several state and county sources, including the Illinois Department of Corrections for prison and mandatory supervised release, the Administrative Office of Illinois Courts for probation, and county sheriffs for jail costs. Additionally, SPAC uses national estimates as needed for arrest, victimization, and other costs.