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North Dakota court committee considers changes to race data proposal Monday, March 23, 2020

Bismarck Tribune

Potential tweaks are in the works for a proposed North Dakota court rule to gather race data on criminal defendants.

Fargo-based East Central District Judge Steven McCullough, who chairs a subcommittee on the rule, said the group reviewed public comments Monday via teleconference and found a few areas to likely address.

The Data Collection Subcommittee of the North Dakota Supreme Court's Minority Justice Implementation Committee might modify the rule's "classifications or criterion" to include the ethnicities of Hispanic and non-Hispanic, he said.

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