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The bill increases juvenile data transparency and prioritizes services for under-18s while preserving existing sentences, but it narrows protections for 18–24-year-olds, constrains local authority to reduce sentences, and raises privacy and administrative burdens from expanded reporting.
People convicted in D.C., victims, and law enforcement: the bill preserves existing criminal sentences and sentence stability so prior court-imposed punishments remain enforceable.
Parents, researchers, journalists, policymakers, and the public: a new monthly, machine-readable juvenile crime dataset improves transparency and allows evidence-based analysis and accountability of prosecutorial and sentencing patterns.
Children and teens under 18: the bill prioritizes youth rehabilitation services and focuses community service programming for 15–18 year-olds, supporting age-appropriate interventions.
Young adults (18–24): removing 18–24-year-olds from youth protections and narrowing community-service age ranges will make them ineligible for youth rehabilitation safeguards and diversion options and may create service gaps.
D.C. residents and the D.C. Council: the bill limits local legislative authority to modify sentencing (including retroactive resentencing), forecloses potential relief for people serving long or outdated sentences, and preserves potentially harsher punishments.
Juveniles in small demographic subgroups: publishing detailed breakdowns by age, race, and sex risks re-identification of young people even without direct identifiers, threatening privacy and confidentiality.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Lowers D.C.'s youth-offender age cutoff to 18, requires the Attorney General to publish monthly machine‑readable juvenile crime data, and bars the D.C. Council from changing existing criminal sentences.
Redefines who counts as a "youth offender" in D.C. by lowering the age cutoff from 24 to 18, shrinking eligibility for youth-rehabilitation provisions and youth community-service programs. Requires the D.C. Attorney General to build and maintain a publicly accessible, machine‑readable website with monthly-updated, archived juvenile crime statistics (excluding personally identifiable information) and requires relevant agencies to provide juvenile records to the Attorney General. Also prevents the D.C. Council from changing any criminal liability sentence that exists on the date this law takes effect. The Attorney General must launch the website within 180 days of enactment.
Introduced August 8, 2025 by Byron Donalds · Last progress September 17, 2025