National Action Plan on Open Government Commitment
C04.4.4 - Designing inclusive government programs and services
- Commitment:
- Designing inclusive government programs and services
- Milestone:
- Update Justice Canada's State of the Criminal Justice System Dashboard and pursue the automation of updates to support easier dissemination of data to the public. Explore, in collaboration with key partners, the possibility of expanding the indicators in the Department of Justice Canada's State of the Criminal Justice System dashboard to include available disaggregated data related to court delays and other key justice system issues.
- Indicator:
- C04.4.4 - Qualitative feedback from key stakeholders on accessibility and usability of the data.
- Lead Organization:
- Department of Justice Canada
- Deadline:
- Feedback will be compiled in March 2027 and at the end of the commitment and shared via public report.
Updates
2026-06
NIL
No new feedback was received during this reporting period. Feedback is gathered informally via email/Team message and during in-person discussions. Five years ago, a contractor was hired to gather feedback by external stakeholders (primarily not-for-profit and advocacy organizations, as well as a couple academics, working in the criminal justice system) and qualitative interviews were conducted. At that time, three quarters of the small sample (n=12) knew about the State of the Criminal Justice System (SOCJS) but only a couple were using it regularly for their work.
There is limited capacity to proactively seek out feedback.
2025-12
General feedback from key stakeholders is that the SOCJS (the Dashboard and related products) is regularly used to inform day-to-day work and is a helpful tool to quickly provide calculated data generated to respond to public policy related questions and discussions on the criminal justice system. The Youth Criminal Justice Division is a policy group that has expressed this feedback numerous times, noting that they use the SOCJS Dashboard almost on a daily basis, and were pleased with the automated indicators to resolve the lag in reporting issues.