The Lake County Prosecutor's Office has been awarded a $25,000 grant from Indiana University Office of Research Administration to conduct a bias study for traffic and misdemeanor cases. In part two of the conversation “Regionally Speaking” host Chris Nolte sits down with Lake County Prosecutor Bernard Carter to discuss how his office will collect data on pretrial justice to study prosecutorial discretion at charging, bail, diversion, plea negotiations and sentencing for traffic and misdemeanor cases and share the information with Indiana University to document racial and ethnic disparities across prosecutorial decision making and how that decision making relates to local diversion policy and practice.
An Interview With Lake County Prosecutor Bernard Carter
