The state’s largest judicial district has created a series of data portals that District Attorney John Kellner called part of a commitment to transparency in his office.

The 18th Judicial District covers Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert and Lincoln counties and is the state’s most heavily populated with more than 1 million residents. Kellner, a Republican, took office in January.

His office on Wednesday launched five data dashboards, the state’s first judicial district online interactive data catalogs, Kellner said in a news release. Each portal can be sorted by county and case type and to be updated daily, according to the release. Data in each portal includes:

• Information on the number of cases filed and resolved, the average number of days to case disposition and the average number of court appearances before resolution. The case type categories include criminal, juvenile, misdemeanor and traffic.
• A list of each case filed in the previous 30 days.
• Information about how cases are resolved. The portal presents information about resolutions in four categories: Acquittals, deferred judgments, dismissals and guilty verdicts.
• An overview of the types of sentences imposed in cases. The data in this portal doesn’t include cases that resulted in diversion, dismissal or another type of disposition.
  
• Race, ethnicity and gender information about defendants and sentences imposed.

In the news release, Kellner said he plans for the office to refine the portals to expand the data they include while balancing the release of information with privacy rights of defendants and victims.

The link to the fifth data portal includes a note cautioning that the office has concerns about the accuracy of demographic data currently because it comes from a variety sources and isn’t based on a consistent method of self-identification. The office is working to develop improved “operational procedures” for getting accurate demographic data.

“I pledged during my campaign to be open and transparent, and this tool is one step in fulfilling that promise,” Kellner said in the news release. “We are public servants, and the public has a right to meaningful information about what we do.”