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Southern Indiana Justice StatsCivic life · meetings, hearings, engagement

Civic context · where the decisions get made

Where these numbers get debated — and decided.

Justice-system change moves through county councils, sheriff’s offices, sheriff’s merit boards, the Indiana General Assembly, and the executive agencies (IDOC, DMHA, IDOH). SIJ tracks the civic touchpoints that affect the data on this dashboard.

About this page.

County council and commissioner agendas are posted per-county in varying formats, so SIJ does not claim a single aggregated meeting index. Instead this page points you to the live, continuously-updated SIJ trackers below that already cover the statewide civic and legal record affecting these counties.

Live civic & legal trackers

Indiana General Assembly bills

Source: iga.in.gov

Every justice-related bill (criminal code, sentencing, MOUD funding, court funding) is tracked through SIJ’s bill index. /bills →

Indiana statutes & code

Source: iga.in.gov code

Searchable Indiana Code — the underlying law that all justice numbers operate within. /statutes →

County action tracker

Source: SIJ county-action index

Specific decisions and resolutions affecting jail funding, reentry programming, and treatment access in the 12 focus counties. /county-action →

Recent court activity

Source: CourtListener

Day-by-day Indiana state and federal court filings — the same record that drives policy and case-by-case outcomes. /cases →

Disciplinary actions

Source: Indiana Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission

Public disciplinary orders against attorneys, judges, and judicial officers. /disciplinary →

County press & local news

Source: county-press RSS aggregation

Local-news headlines for each focus county — the signal layer for what residents and councils are actually hearing about. /county-press →

How decisions reach the data. Justice-system change in these 12 counties moves through county councils and commissioners, sheriff’s merit boards, the courts, the Indiana General Assembly, and the executive agencies (IDOC, DMHA, IDOH). The trackers above follow that record as it is published — legislation on Bills, local decisions on County action, court activity on Cases, and local coverage on County press.