christine soto-deberry. pleased to be here before all of you and to present on this very important topic. can you hear me? sorry. i'm not tall enough. >> it's good. >> latino, i'm short but in heels. >> but powerful. >> i'm going to be as brief as i can. i know there are many presenters with a lot of interesting information. i want to extend that i'm happy to have conversations away from this commission meeting with you the public or commissioners to fill you in on the work we do. we have a lot of passion around data and equity issues it imindicates. i won't cover everything here tonight but we want to be a partner with you in this effort. so traditionally district attorney offices are not big for data, concerns over what it may reveal, for our good fortunate, our office has incentive to collect data and react to it in positive ways to lead in important areas people expect us to work on. to speak directly to an issue that this commission has asked, we actually just today at the re-entree council released a r

and somewhat interacts with the other systems in criminal justice and i will echo what christine deberry said. one of the things that i hope will come out of this is that we will gather, identify first, and gather excellent data, so we can make good decisions, and we're not there. and i think that was said by a number of the other people before me. we're not there. i'm hopeful that the justice system will be able to come up and get together and there will be more investment in it, so we can get the data we need. and one of the things that i'm doing in my budget is my jail management system that collects all this data and more, but also interfaces with other systems, but not as much as we would like. we don't get regular reports that we would like. it's very, very complicated to get a report out of the system. i'm asking in my budget for a new system, which will be a lot more flexible and we'll be able to do a lot that we can't do now. so what -- for what purpose does the sheriff's department use the data? well, on the big -- in the big picture, we share the data to better understand and