Civil Justice Data Dashboard
The Civil Justice Data Dashboard was created during the partnership of the Access to Justice Commission with the former Attorney General, Brian Frosh, for the Attorney General’s COVID-19 Access to Justice Task Force. In addition to tackling substantive areas of law like housing and consumer law, the Task Force had a Data and Legal Technology Committee to signal the importance and need for civil justice data. Versions 1.0 and 2.0 of the Dashboard are the first attempts in Maryland to identify and curate civil justice data that lived in different reports and was held by different organizations in one central place. The need for such data to inform policy-making was sorely missing at the height of the pandemic. For many Marylanders, particularly those in low income and communities of color, the COVID-19 pandemic exposed and exacerbated challenges in obtaining access to justice on a scale and magnitude not encountered before. In order to help bring attention to the issue and provide insights to the public, the Task Force collected and visualized a number of datasets into comprehensive dashboards that highlight different parts of the civil justice system.
