How CaseParity builds its reports

CaseParity Public Records Transparency Reports summarize what already happened in publicly reported criminal cases, drawn from government records that are public by law. They are published statistics, not legal advice — they describe patterns across many past cases; they do not evaluate, predict, or recommend anything about any individual case.

Where the data comes from. We use official, publicly released criminal-justice records — the kind maintained by state agencies and courts and made available for public transparency. We do not collect any information about you or your case to produce a report.

How we check it. Public records are imperfect. We cross-check the legal references in our reports against more than one independent source. Where sources disagree, we investigate the discrepancy and apply documented reconciliation rules before publication.

What we show, and how. Statistics are presented as rates with their totals stated plainly (“of N cases like this, X%”), with a measure of statistical uncertainty, and in plain language. We do not show a statistic when too few cases exist to be reliable — we say so instead of publishing a shaky number.

What we're honest about. No public dataset is complete. Some categories of records are sealed, removed, or not reported uniformly across counties. In many public datasets the stages of a case aren't linked together, so reports show patterns at each stage from its own records rather than tracking a single case's outcome through time. Reports describe these limits where they apply rather than papering over them.

What a report is not. A CaseParity report cannot tell you what will happen in your case, what you should do, or whether a particular outcome applies to you. Those are questions for a licensed attorney. Our job is to make the public record legible — accurately, with its limits stated.